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 Bahrain and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the techno 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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All New Order tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Silicon Teens record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sugar Minott,
Public Image Ltd.,
Japan,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Dennis Brown,
Black Sheep,
Glenn Branca,
Joy Division,
Lee Hazlewood,
Public Enemy,
The Associates,
Deadbeat,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Skriet,
The Misunderstood,
Yellowson,
Michelle Simonal,
Brothers Johnson,
Symarip,
Niagra,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Cecil Taylor,
the Sonics,
Dave Gahan,
Liliput,
Livin' Joy,
Desert Stars,
ABC,
Jesper Dahlback,
Gichy Dan,
Anthony Braxton,
Susan Cadogan,
Outsiders,
Excepter,
Lungfish,
Lower 48,
Roy Ayers,
Colin Newman,
Crime,
Roxette,
Main Source,
Drive Like Jehu,
Leonard Cohen,
the Slits,
Maurizio,
Marshall Jefferson,
Rekid,
Pantytec,
Juan Atkins,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Motions,
Reuben Wilson,
Derrick Morgan,
Gil Scott Heron,
Althea and Donna,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Duran Duran,
Grauzone,
Babytalk,
Bronski Beat,
Pere Ubu,
Vainqueur,
One Last Wish,
Wire, Wire, Wire, Wire.
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.