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 Swaziland and from Bologna.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 David McCallum to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra,
Jeff Mills,
Unwound,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lou Reed,
Ossler,
Index,
Ponytail,
Tubeway Army,
Curtis Mayfield,
Fela Kuti,
Pantaleimon,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Dead C,
Steve Hackett,
Echospace,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Joe Smooth,
L. Decosne,
Camouflage,
The Trojans,
Roxy Music,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Gabor Szabo,
The Standells,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kevin Saunderson,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The New Christs,
Marcia Griffiths,
Hardrive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mary Jane Girls,
Spoonie Gee,
Sarah Menescal,
The Angels of Light,
Mo-Dettes,
John Lydon,
the Association,
The Moody Blues,
Aaron Thompson,
Nas,
Amazonics,
Maurizio,
Rosa Yemen,
Derrick May,
Procol Harum,
James White and The Blacks,
Minnie Riperton,
Donald Byrd,
Slick Rick,
Isaac Hayes,
Nation of Ulysses,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Japan,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.