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 Mexico and from Tokyo.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 marimba 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 Neu! to the grime 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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All The Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & John Cale record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mr. Review record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Matthew Halsall,
Gong,
Scratch Acid,
Rapeman,
Jeff Mills,
Jeff Lynne,
Bang On A Can,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Sparks,
Fluxion,
One Last Wish,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Soul II Soul,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The J.B.'s,
The Gap Band,
Mantronix,
Ossler,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ponytail,
Beasts of Bourbon,
FM Einheit,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Mars,
The Monochrome Set,
Technova,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Swans,
X-101,
Erykah Badu,
the Swans,
The Sonics,
10cc,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Associates,
the Sonics,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Schoolly D,
Lightning Bolt,
Eric B and Rakim,
KRS-One,
Guru Guru,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Modern Lovers,
The Dead C,
Absolute Body Control,
Joey Negro,
The New Christs,
Charles Mingus,
Fugazi,
Minor Threat,
Faraquet,
Spoonie Gee,
Shoche,
Soft Machine,
Malaria!,
Moby Grape,
Magazine,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Cecil Taylor,
Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson, Yellowson.
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.