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 Belarus and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 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 Lou Christie to the punk 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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Tears for Fears tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a 10cc record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Vladislav Delay,
Echospace,
Delon & Dalcan,
Lightning Bolt,
Silicon Teens,
Ultra Naté,
The Cure,
Todd Terry,
The Moleskins,
Connie Case,
Mantronix,
Marshall Jefferson,
Altered Images,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Con Funk Shun,
Hot Snakes,
Laurel Aitken,
Wolf Eyes,
Audionom,
Roger Hodgson,
H. Thieme,
Agent Orange,
Traffic Nightmare,
Guru Guru,
PIL,
Bad Manners,
The Skatalites,
Cecil Taylor,
Yazoo,
Moss Icon,
Josef K,
Make Up,
Joe Smooth,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Nik Kershaw,
Leonard Cohen,
The Beau Brummels,
Panda Bear,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ronan,
Jeff Mills,
Scion,
Popol Vuh,
Amazonics,
Maleditus Sound,
Public Enemy,
the Swans,
Thompson Twins,
Todd Rundgren,
Electric Prunes,
Newcleus,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Das Ding,
Junior Murvin,
Scratch Acid,
The Selecter,
Fela Kuti,
X-102,
New Age Steppers,
Lyres,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.