Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Estonia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Jawbox to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by De La Soul & Jungle Brothers. All the underground hits.
All Duran Duran tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Babytalk record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Mary Jane Girls,
Intrusion,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Donald Byrd,
Barrington Levy,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Tears for Fears,
Pagans,
Urselle,
Rufus Thomas,
The Evens,
DNA,
Desert Stars,
June Days,
Blossom Toes,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bill Near,
Boredoms,
The Fuzztones,
Scrapy,
The Leaves,
Arcadia,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Black Dice,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Martian,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
the Normal,
The Fall,
Faraquet,
Hoover,
Pere Ubu,
The Offenders,
the Human League,
Freddie Wadling,
The Monochrome Set,
Quando Quango,
KRS-One,
Gang of Four,
Ossler,
Pantytec,
Royal Trux,
JFA,
The Busters,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Minny Pops,
Kerri Chandler,
The Walker Brothers,
Byron Stingily,
Lalann,
Joyce Sims,
Youth Brigade,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bootsy Collins,
Alison Limerick,
Piero Umiliani,
The Invisible,
Aural Exciters,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.