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 Azerbaijan and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Laurel Aitken to the techno 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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
a-ha,
Yazoo,
Darondo,
LL Cool J,
The Fall,
Janne Schatter,
Matthew Bourne,
Yusef Lateef,
Brick,
The Offenders,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Alison Limerick,
OOIOO,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Fortunes,
Pere Ubu,
Guru Guru,
Barrington Levy,
The Names,
Hoover,
Simply Red,
New Age Steppers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Knickerbockers,
Joensuu 1685,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Colin Newman,
Television,
Pylon,
Scan 7,
Agent Orange,
Agitation Free,
The Electric Prunes,
Archie Shepp,
Stereo Dub,
The Martian,
Rakim,
Anthony Braxton,
La Düsseldorf,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Model 500,
Cluster,
Reagan Youth,
Mars,
Fort Wilson Riot,
DJ Sneak,
Lalo Schifrin,
Boogie Down Productions,
Unwound,
Idris Muhammad,
Half Japanese,
Monks,
Scion,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Harry Pussy,
Intrusion,
Ohio Players,
Kayak,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.