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 Greece and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Lebanon Hanover to the disco kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Basic Channel. All the underground hits.
All Bobby Hutcherson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 a sitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Matthew Bourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Young Rascals,
Minutemen,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Black Dice,
The Vogues,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eurythmics,
The Offenders,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Joy Division,
Erasure,
Underground Resistance,
The New Christs,
48th St. Collective,
The Moleskins,
Grey Daturas,
Drexciya,
Circle Jerks,
Steve Hackett,
JFA,
Goldenarms,
Angry Samoans,
Animal Collective,
Blake Baxter,
Yaz,
Duran Duran,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Saccharine Trust,
Faraquet,
Eric Dolphy,
The Searchers,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Unrelated Segments,
Robert Görl,
Adolescents,
The Knickerbockers,
ABC,
Swell Maps,
Morten Harket,
Matthew Halsall,
Siglo XX,
Khruangbin,
David McCallum,
Eve St. Jones,
Glambeats Corp.,
Unwound,
Surgeon,
Depeche Mode,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Mummies,
Bobby Byrd,
Fad Gadget,
Wolf Eyes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
R.M.O.,
Babytalk,
Wings,
Bobby Sherman,
Nick Fraelich,
Groovy Waters,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.