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 Mauritius and from Tehran.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Holger Czukay 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 Das Ding to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 LL Cool J. All the underground hits.
All the Fania All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Buzzcocks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Birthday Party,
Stiv Bators,
Todd Terry,
The Walker Brothers,
Davy DMX,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Excepter,
Soulsonic Force,
Pagans,
The Neon Judgement,
The Fuzztones,
Cal Tjader,
Sister Nancy,
Bill Wells,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Dawn Penn,
Bad Manners,
ABBA,
Trumans Water,
Mr. Review,
Soft Cell,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Gang Gang Dance,
Goldenarms,
The Fall,
Eddi Front,
Hashim,
Nirvana,
Silicon Teens,
Animal Collective,
Quando Quango,
Youth Brigade,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Surgeon,
Deepchord,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Schoolly D,
JFA,
Mo-Dettes,
Yellowson,
The Busters,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Star Department,
Section 25,
Gong,
Black Pus,
The Invisible,
The Alarm Clocks,
the Germs,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Stereo Dub,
MDC,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arthur Verocai,
The Flesh Eaters,
MC5,
Ken Boothe,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scientists,
Cecil Taylor,
Al Stewart,
Franke, Franke, Franke, Franke.
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.