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 Uganda and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 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 Sad Lovers and Giants to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sun Ra Arkestra. All the underground hits.
All Toni Rubio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Reagan Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Toni Rubio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
Arthur Verocai,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Adolescents,
Faraquet,
Josef K,
Beasts of Bourbon,
K-Klass,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The American Breed,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Erasure,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Goldenarms,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pagans,
The Searchers,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kaleidoscope,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Morten Harket,
The New Christs,
Jerry's Kids,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lungfish,
Aaron Thompson,
Animal Collective,
One Last Wish,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Schoolly D,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Newcleus,
The Barracudas,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
CMW,
Fat Boys,
Magma,
Ronnie Foster,
Malaria!,
Stereo Dub,
Bill Near,
The Zeros,
Scan 7,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scratch Acid,
The Fugs,
Nik Kershaw,
Todd Rundgren,
The Mojo Men,
Donald Byrd,
Moebius,
Nick Fraelich,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Rakim,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
the Slits,
Gang of Four,
The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks, The Alarm Clocks.
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.