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 Luxembourg and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 organ 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 Dual Sessions to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 the Normal. All the underground hits.
All DJ Style tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every kango's stein massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a June Days record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Marcia Griffiths,
The Moleskins,
Mad Mike,
Second Layer,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
EPMD,
Bauhaus,
Robert Görl,
Johnny Clarke,
Swell Maps,
Jacques Brel,
Gabor Szabo,
the Soft Cell,
Gong,
Brand Nubian,
Ultra Naté,
DJ Sneak,
Hoover,
Minnie Riperton,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Section 25,
Darondo,
Unwound,
A Flock of Seagulls,
kango's stein massive,
Soul Sonic Force,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fuzztones,
The Victims,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Fugazi,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Young Marble Giants,
Ronnie Foster,
Soulsonic Force,
The Seeds,
Scan 7,
Toni Rubio,
Archie Shepp,
Scion,
The Cramps,
Sun Ra,
Mission of Burma,
Underground Resistance,
The Knickerbockers,
Outsiders,
Tom Boy,
Scrapy,
Joy Division,
Roxette,
Wire,
Marine Girls,
Angry Samoans,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Zeros,
Dual Sessions,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pierre Henry,
U.S. Maple,
FM Einheit,
Animal Collective,
Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo, Max Romeo.
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.