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 Norway and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Ten City to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Jerry Gold Smith. All the underground hits.
All The Selecter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DNA 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-101,
The Walker Brothers,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Man Parrish,
Lyres,
Echospace,
Dave Gahan,
ABC,
Jeff Mills,
Maurizio,
The Blackbyrds,
Deakin,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gerry Rafferty,
Popol Vuh,
Moss Icon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Soft Machine,
Neu!,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Marshall Jefferson,
Joy Division,
The Cramps,
The Stooges,
Scrapy,
Gang Gang Dance,
Swans,
Rekid,
The Misunderstood,
Gregory Isaacs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Mark Hollis,
Lou Reed,
June Days,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Lydon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Idris Muhammad,
Monolake,
Blake Baxter,
Bush Tetras,
Janne Schatter,
Pylon,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Dave Clark Five,
Rapeman,
The Invisible,
Judy Mowatt,
The Cowsills,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Sparks,
Alphaville,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Eric B and Rakim,
Ultra Naté,
AZ,
The Modern Lovers,
Lucky Dragons,
Ice-T,
Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron.
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.