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 China and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 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 Lucky Dragons to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Bobby Sherman. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dorothy Ashby record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Los Fastidios record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Derrick Morgan,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Cluster,
Lower 48,
Electric Prunes,
John Foxx,
Gil Scott Heron,
La Düsseldorf,
Rhythm & Sound,
Cameo,
John Cale,
10cc,
The Durutti Column,
Pagans,
Surgeon,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Pretty Things,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kerri Chandler,
Black Flag,
Mo-Dettes,
Loose Ends,
Negative Approach,
The Cramps,
X-101,
Bill Near,
the Soft Cell,
Au Pairs,
Sonic Youth,
Rites of Spring,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Martian,
Duran Duran,
Ornette Coleman,
Harpers Bizarre,
Silicon Teens,
Freddie Wadling,
The Fugs,
Barbara Tucker,
Aloha Tigers,
The Kinks,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Fugazi,
OOIOO,
The Human League,
Joe Smooth,
Lou Christie,
China Crisis,
Pole,
The Toasters,
Organ,
U.S. Maple,
The Motions,
Fat Boys,
Grandmaster Flash,
Fatback Band,
Joyce Sims,
Faust, Faust, Faust, Faust.
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.