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 Moldova and from Toronto.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Robert Palmer 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 Barry Ungar to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soulsonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiopuhelimet record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Metal Thangz,
Junior Murvin,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
B.T. Express,
Eurythmics,
Be Bop Deluxe,
L. Decosne,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Camberwell Now,
Absolute Body Control,
Wings,
Joey Negro,
Funky Four + One,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pulsallama,
John Coltrane,
Robert Görl,
Tubeway Army,
Nico,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lebanon Hanover,
Marine Girls,
Avey Tare,
EPMD,
The Slackers,
Moebius,
Shoche,
Little Man,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
MC5,
Ronnie Foster,
New Order,
Harry Pussy,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Wake,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Germs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Freddie Wadling,
The Gun Club,
Magazine,
Reagan Youth,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Roxy Music,
Swans,
Scratch Acid,
Tears for Fears,
Tim Buckley,
Idris Muhammad,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Skatalites,
Stockholm Monsters,
Howard Jones,
Cybotron,
Pantytec,
E-Dancer,
The Birthday Party,
Pole,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
X-101,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sällskapet,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.