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 Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Michael McDonald 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 Sam Rivers to the punk 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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Sherman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Faust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Q and Not U,
Derrick May,
Susan Cadogan,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Joy Division,
Essential Logic,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Dead C,
Make Up,
Oblivians,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Doobie Brothers,
Leonard Cohen,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ponytail,
Colin Newman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
DNA,
Brand Nubian,
Excepter,
James White and The Blacks,
Gang Starr,
Soft Cell,
Fad Gadget,
U.S. Maple,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Boredoms,
New York Dolls,
Peter & Gordon,
The Raincoats,
Zero Boys,
Gang Gang Dance,
Gang Green,
The Smoke,
Accadde A,
Slave,
The Vogues,
Parry Music,
Dead Boys,
Robert Wyatt,
Neil Young,
China Crisis,
Schoolly D,
John Cale,
Aural Exciters,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eve St. Jones,
Thee Headcoats,
Organ,
The Last Poets,
Morten Harket,
Ultra Naté,
Hashim,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Funkadelic,
Agitation Free,
Bill Wells,
Skarface,
Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms, Goldenarms.
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.