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 Macedonia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rock kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All Brothers Johnson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arab on Radar 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Essential Logic,
Nirvana,
Clear Light,
The Gories,
Animal Collective,
Nation of Ulysses,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Todd Rundgren,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Tremeloes,
Kurtis Blow,
Reuben Wilson,
Con Funk Shun,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Sunsets and Hearts,
Echospace,
Junior Murvin,
Marvin Gaye,
Boredoms,
Alison Limerick,
Scratch Acid,
The Doobie Brothers,
X-102,
Morten Harket,
The Fall,
The Raincoats,
Fad Gadget,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Michelle Simonal,
Cybotron,
Flipper,
Underground Resistance,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Brand Nubian,
Khruangbin,
Fela Kuti,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Fluxion,
Joe Finger,
Archie Shepp,
Todd Terry,
Intrusion,
Harpers Bizarre,
Gang of Four,
the Germs,
Judy Mowatt,
Skriet,
The Black Dice,
Panda Bear,
Rosa Yemen,
The Divine Comedy,
Das Ding,
The Cowsills,
Guru Guru,
Curtis Mayfield,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
the Human League,
Rites of Spring,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The United States of America,
Q and Not U,
Erasure,
Shoche,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.