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 Denmark and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Young Rascals to the rock kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Faust tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Knickerbockers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a David Axelrod record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
The Fire Engines,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Minny Pops,
Kool Moe Dee,
Kas Product,
The Gladiators,
The Zeros,
The Blackbyrds,
David McCallum,
Marine Girls,
Wire,
K-Klass,
Morten Harket,
Yaz,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Dual Sessions,
The Mummies,
Ituana,
The Detroit Cobras,
Rhythm & Sound,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Eurythmics,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lalo Schifrin,
Simply Red,
Lindisfarne,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Unwound,
Flash Fearless,
DJ Sneak,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Wings,
Joe Finger,
Scratch Acid,
Donny Hathaway,
Joy Division,
Siglo XX,
Magma,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Hot Snakes,
Quadrant,
Malaria!,
The Martian,
Visage,
L. Decosne,
Porter Ricks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Beau Brummels,
Slick Rick,
Make Up,
Underground Resistance,
Japan,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Harpers Bizarre,
the Sonics,
The Misunderstood,
Pantaleimon,
Quando Quango,
Franke,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Warsaw,
Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front, Eddi Front.
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.