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 Albania and from Johannesburg.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 mellotron 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 Reagan Youth to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 John Holt. All the underground hits.
All Gregory Isaacs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Swell Maps record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Age Steppers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cybotron,
Anakelly,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Warren Ellis,
Stereo Dub,
Robert Hood,
Black Moon,
Y Pants,
The Saints,
H. Thieme,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Half Japanese,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Motions,
Shuggie Otis,
Swans,
Byron Stingily,
The Wake,
Delta 5,
The Real Kids,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Monochrome Set,
Erykah Badu,
Scion,
The Walker Brothers,
Idris Muhammad,
Roxy Music,
Loose Ends,
Eric Copeland,
David Bowie,
The Birthday Party,
The Mummies,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Associates,
Oblivians,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Human League,
kango's stein massive,
Bill Wells,
Talk Talk,
Gang of Four,
Sexual Harrassment,
Juan Atkins,
Boogie Down Productions,
June Days,
Hoover,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Second Layer,
X-101,
Pantytec,
Tomorrow,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pere Ubu,
EPMD,
Wolf Eyes,
Television,
Eric Dolphy,
Urselle,
Saccharine Trust,
Interpol,
Erasure,
Terrestrial Tones,
Newcleus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.