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 Comoros and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 linndrum 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 Sun City Girls to the grime 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 Bobby Hutcherson. All the underground hits.
All Harpers Bizarre tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Leaves record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobbi Humphrey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Leonard Cohen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bronski Beat,
Soul Sonic Force,
Tres Demented,
Chrome,
Parry Music,
8 Eyed Spy,
Yazoo,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Rufus Thomas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Surgeon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mo-Dettes,
Heaven 17,
John Foxx,
Minnie Riperton,
Brothers Johnson,
Rotary Connection,
Matthew Bourne,
Ronnie Foster,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Boredoms,
Dead Boys,
Lebanon Hanover,
Silicon Teens,
Nico,
Grauzone,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Motions,
Liliput,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Patti Smith,
Lalann,
UT,
Soft Machine,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Quadrant,
Average White Band,
Gang Starr,
Marine Girls,
Television Personalities,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ken Boothe,
The Star Department,
Y Pants,
Essential Logic,
Brass Construction,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Crooked Eye,
48th St. Collective,
Mary Jane Girls,
Letta Mbulu,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville, Alphaville.
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.