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 Liechtenstein and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Buzzcocks to the grunge 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 Mantronix. All the underground hits.
All T. Rex tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sound Behaviour 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lakeside record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
the Human League,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Electric Prunes,
Aloha Tigers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Radiohead,
Subhumans,
Jacob Miller,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lyres,
The Trojans,
Scratch Acid,
Nils Olav,
The Fortunes,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
T. Rex,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Hashim,
Blake Baxter,
Barry Ungar,
ABBA,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Con Funk Shun,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Derrick Morgan,
The Toasters,
Sällskapet,
Radio Birdman,
Moss Icon,
Matthew Halsall,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Mr. Review,
Pulsallama,
Nico,
Mantronix,
Excepter,
David Axelrod,
Nation of Ulysses,
Cybotron,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Guru Guru,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Saccharine Trust,
Eli Mardock,
Absolute Body Control,
Ornette Coleman,
Warren Ellis,
Smog,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Doors,
Kool Moe Dee,
In Retrospect,
Chris Corsano,
Hasil Adkins,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Count Five,
Kerrie Biddell,
Unrelated Segments,
Magma,
Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly, Anakelly.
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.