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 Georgia and from Winnipeg.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 snare 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 Hasil Adkins to the rap 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 Goldenarms. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a MC5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pole,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Nico,
Jimmy McGriff,
Model 500,
Pagans,
John Holt,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cybotron,
Los Fastidios,
Ten City,
Parry Music,
MDC,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
ABBA,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dark Day,
Alice Coltrane,
Little Man,
Rod Modell,
Rekid,
UT,
Carl Craig,
Patti Smith,
FM Einheit,
Intrusion,
The Durutti Column,
Gang Starr,
Gabor Szabo,
Jacques Brel,
The Mummies,
Sandy B,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Young Rascals,
Rhythm & Sound,
Negative Approach,
Schoolly D,
Bronski Beat,
X-102,
Boz Scaggs,
Moebius,
Sight & Sound,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Leonard Cohen,
The Fall,
Isaac Hayes,
Au Pairs,
Josef K,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
E-Dancer,
Yusef Lateef,
Jesper Dahlback,
Godley & Creme,
Roxette,
Youth Brigade,
Stetsasonic,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Yellowson,
The Gap Band,
Shoche,
Young Marble Giants,
Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese, Half Japanese.
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.