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 Russia and from Mumbai.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Suicide to the disco 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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Masters at Work 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Don Cherry,
Ronan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sight & Sound,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Nirvana,
Robert Hood,
Echospace,
Mo-Dettes,
Monks,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Inner City,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lee Hazlewood,
Animal Collective,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rotary Connection,
Trumans Water,
OOIOO,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Electric Prunes,
Ituana,
Skaos,
Black Pus,
John Cale,
Pharoah Sanders,
Derrick Morgan,
Morten Harket,
Letta Mbulu,
Pylon,
Sällskapet,
Ronnie Foster,
Gang of Four,
Camberwell Now,
Rufus Thomas,
The Saints,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marvin Gaye,
Sun Ra,
The Smiths,
June Days,
Los Fastidios,
Lou Christie,
Oneida,
Deepchord,
Scratch Acid,
A Certain Ratio,
The Names,
Public Enemy,
Clear Light,
The Zeros,
Khruangbin,
The Sonics,
Lalann,
Bill Near,
Mantronix,
Eden Ahbez,
Spoonie Gee,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Barclay James Harvest,
Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division.
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.