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 Peru and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 Houston and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 organ 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 ABBA to the dance 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 Suicide. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Royal Trux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thompson Twins,
The Offenders,
The Kinks,
Matthew Bourne,
Pulsallama,
Scratch Acid,
Donny Hathaway,
Dorothy Ashby,
Brick,
Boredoms,
Au Pairs,
Gichy Dan,
The Golliwogs,
Joe Smooth,
Chris Corsano,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Doobie Brothers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Procol Harum,
The Raincoats,
Icehouse,
The Red Krayola,
Panda Bear,
David McCallum,
Joey Negro,
Hashim,
Robert Görl,
D'Angelo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dark Day,
Quando Quango,
Eden Ahbez,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
La Düsseldorf,
Cecil Taylor,
Skaos,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Soul Sonic Force,
Andrew Hill,
Deakin,
Simply Red,
The Saints,
Zero Boys,
The Happenings,
Main Source,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Girls At Our Best!,
Agitation Free,
The Buckinghams,
Fluxion,
Stereo Dub,
Leonard Cohen,
Organ,
Marvin Gaye,
Jandek,
Slick Rick,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mantronix,
The Fugs,
The Slits,
Bob Dylan,
Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish, Man Parrish.
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.