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 Ecuador and from New York.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 David Bowie 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 Dawn Penn to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Magazine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
CMW,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Pet Shop Boys,
Delta 5,
Country Teasers,
The Sound,
The Fugs,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Dave Clark Five,
T. Rex,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Camouflage,
Bronski Beat,
Nirvana,
The Buckinghams,
Public Image Ltd.,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
AZ,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
LL Cool J,
Minutemen,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Ultra Naté,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jacob Miller,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Minor Threat,
the Germs,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
Television Personalities,
Leonard Cohen,
L. Decosne,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Lou Christie,
Max Romeo,
Kerri Chandler,
Joyce Sims,
the Association,
Cymande,
Yellowson,
F. McDonald,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bill Wells,
Rites of Spring,
Magazine,
Maleditus Sound,
MC5,
Warsaw,
Y Pants,
Big Daddy Kane,
Brick,
The Associates,
Mantronix,
Eric Dolphy,
Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian, Brand Nubian.
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.