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 France and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Lou Reed 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 Minny Pops to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Alphaville. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Stooges record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 an arpeggiator and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Whodini record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
Circle Jerks,
Byron Stingily,
Arab on Radar,
Quadrant,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Sound Behaviour,
Glenn Branca,
DJ Sneak,
Liliput,
Bizarre Inc.,
Soul II Soul,
Sandy B,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Albert Ayler,
Visage,
Subhumans,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Bluetip,
Echospace,
Bronski Beat,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Can,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
K-Klass,
Ash Ra Tempel,
L. Decosne,
Prince Buster,
Todd Terry,
Pet Shop Boys,
Anakelly,
Dave Gahan,
Howard Jones,
The United States of America,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Animal Collective,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Fall,
Toni Rubio,
T. Rex,
Sixth Finger,
Neil Young,
Pierre Henry,
Eric Copeland,
Gichy Dan,
Quando Quango,
Maleditus Sound,
Minnie Riperton,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Flesh Eaters,
Minutemen,
Girls At Our Best!,
Joyce Sims,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Crooked Eye,
The Barracudas,
Isaac Hayes,
Lyres,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.