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 Chile and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1966 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 Michael McDonald 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 John Cale to the funk 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 Stereo Dub. All the underground hits.
All Juan Atkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Searchers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mantronix,
Schoolly D,
The Dave Clark Five,
Brass Construction,
Supertramp,
The Electric Prunes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Electric Prunes,
Dave Gahan,
The Cure,
Eli Mardock,
Nirvana,
Alison Limerick,
The Divine Comedy,
Tomorrow,
Derrick Morgan,
Desert Stars,
The Buckinghams,
Todd Terry,
Television,
Brothers Johnson,
The Offenders,
The Music Machine,
Jacques Brel,
Swans,
Camouflage,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gerry Rafferty,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lalann,
Matthew Bourne,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Godley & Creme,
Ice-T,
Vladislav Delay,
Panda Bear,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Black Dice,
Harmonia,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Rosa Yemen,
Absolute Body Control,
Sam Rivers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Ultra Naté,
U.S. Maple,
The Move,
Morten Harket,
Bluetip,
Avey Tare,
Mo-Dettes,
Bauhaus,
Subhumans,
Deadbeat,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Yellowson,
Leonard Cohen,
David McCallum,
Cybotron,
Flipper, Flipper, Flipper, Flipper.
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.