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 Kenya and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Kerrie Biddell to the techno 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 Quadrant. All the underground hits.
All Kas Product tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Schoolly D,
Intrusion,
Easy Going,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Bush Tetras,
Section 25,
Derrick Morgan,
Skarface,
The Five Americans,
ABC,
The Litter,
JFA,
Jacob Miller,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Outsiders,
T. Rex,
Thee Headcoats,
Derrick May,
Kas Product,
The New Christs,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Marc Almond,
Michelle Simonal,
Tubeway Army,
Harpers Bizarre,
the Soft Cell,
The Monochrome Set,
Eurythmics,
Frankie Knuckles,
The J.B.'s,
the Swans,
the Slits,
The Sonics,
The Fortunes,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jeff Mills,
Magma,
Pharoah Sanders,
Flipper,
Slave,
Cybotron,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
This Heat,
Eli Mardock,
The Count Five,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ralphi Rosario,
Excepter,
Los Fastidios,
Lucky Dragons,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.