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 Guyana and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Marvin Gaye to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Banda Bassotti,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Das Ding,
Porter Ricks,
Crispian St. Peters,
Piero Umiliani,
Crooked Eye,
Sällskapet,
Oneida,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Erasure,
Barrington Levy,
Lou Reed,
Lebanon Hanover,
X-Ray Spex,
Severed Heads,
Altered Images,
David McCallum,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Alphaville,
Television,
Nik Kershaw,
Lee Hazlewood,
cv313,
David Axelrod,
Janne Schatter,
H. Thieme,
Ralphi Rosario,
Big Daddy Kane,
The United States of America,
Mr. Review,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Groovy Waters,
Donny Hathaway,
The Sonics,
the Bar-Kays,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Quantec,
Iggy Pop,
K-Klass,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Mars,
Supertramp,
Unwound,
The Durutti Column,
Joensuu 1685,
John Foxx,
La Düsseldorf,
Josef K,
The Slackers,
Masters at Work,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Young Rascals,
Rapeman,
Magazine,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.