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 Iceland and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 rhodes 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 Soul Sonic Force to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All The Monochrome Set tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Gang Dance 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Symarip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Martian,
Blossom Toes,
The Kinks,
Pylon,
Albert Ayler,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Fall,
Hot Snakes,
Slick Rick,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Throbbing Gristle,
Liliput,
the Human League,
Tres Demented,
The Black Dice,
Minor Threat,
Pantaleimon,
Tim Buckley,
Reuben Wilson,
Spoonie Gee,
Moebius,
Bobby Sherman,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Josef K,
Loose Ends,
Half Japanese,
Magazine,
Stockholm Monsters,
Black Pus,
Section 25,
Smog,
Barry Ungar,
Neu!,
Average White Band,
Franke,
Quando Quango,
The Angels of Light,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sarah Menescal,
Yusef Lateef,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Monochrome Set,
The Associates,
The Offenders,
Alice Coltrane,
Toni Rubio,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Babytalk,
The Doors,
Don Cherry,
Jimmy McGriff,
Schoolly D,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pole,
Wally Richardson,
Index,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Alton Ellis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Charles Mingus,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.