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 Liberia and from Tokyo.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Eurythmics to the rap kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Davy DMX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Theoretical Girls,
Nick Fraelich,
Max Romeo,
Lungfish,
JFA,
the Normal,
Mary Jane Girls,
Country Teasers,
Lee Hazlewood,
Von Mondo,
Dave Gahan,
Crooked Eye,
Technova,
Oblivians,
Stiv Bators,
the Soft Cell,
Bauhaus,
Sonny Sharrock,
Blancmange,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Jeru the Damaja,
Black Moon,
Rufus Thomas,
Rapeman,
Make Up,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Nils Olav,
Q and Not U,
The Monks,
Donald Byrd,
Unwound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fatback Band,
Kevin Saunderson,
Marc Almond,
Organ,
Curtis Mayfield,
Bronski Beat,
Neil Young,
Ronnie Foster,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Zeros,
Marmalade,
Eric Copeland,
Hot Snakes,
Lakeside,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
FM Einheit,
The Gun Club,
Black Bananas,
Public Enemy,
The Motions,
The Electric Prunes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
the Fania All-Stars,
Sonic Youth,
Cecil Taylor,
Swell Maps,
Rod Modell,
Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh, Popol Vuh.
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.