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 Korea North and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare 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 Ultra Naté to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Fluxion. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kings Of Tomorrow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
Flash Fearless,
Harry Pussy,
Marmalade,
Oneida,
The Moody Blues,
Pylon,
Japan,
The Mojo Men,
Loose Ends,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Remains,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Smog,
Rakim,
Oblivians,
Zero Boys,
Neu!,
Dual Sessions,
Lightning Bolt,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rufus Thomas,
Sällskapet,
Crispian St. Peters,
Ronan,
The Doors,
Nico,
Lee Hazlewood,
Roxette,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Peter & Gordon,
Nas,
Tomorrow,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Shadows of Knight,
Vladislav Delay,
Gong,
Ponytail,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Los Fastidios,
The New Christs,
Susan Cadogan,
Eli Mardock,
Maurizio,
The Cramps,
Adolescents,
Metal Thangz,
Talk Talk,
Suicide,
Fad Gadget,
Derrick Morgan,
The Red Krayola,
Robert Wyatt,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Infiniti,
the Human League,
Kas Product,
Sex Pistols,
Duran Duran,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.