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 Korea North and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Peter & Gordon to the grime 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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Marshall Jefferson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roy Ayers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doors record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bang On A Can,
Patti Smith,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
8 Eyed Spy,
Man Eating Sloth,
Swans,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Wolf Eyes,
Echospace,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Moebius,
Monolake,
Toni Rubio,
Jeff Mills,
Bluetip,
Eurythmics,
Crime,
Lightning Bolt,
The Index,
Silicon Teens,
Mary Jane Girls,
Peter & Gordon,
Lungfish,
Bush Tetras,
John Holt,
Sarah Menescal,
In Retrospect,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Talk Talk,
Todd Terry,
Tropical Tobacco,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Sonny Sharrock,
Kerrie Biddell,
Chris & Cosey,
Eric Copeland,
Scott Walker,
Aloha Tigers,
Mo-Dettes,
10cc,
Spoonie Gee,
Gong,
Radiohead,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Blues Magoos,
Popol Vuh,
John Cale,
Bill Wells,
Kas Product,
The Victims,
Boredoms,
Bauhaus,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Standells,
Soul Sonic Force,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eric B and Rakim,
Babytalk,
Lucky Dragons,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.