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 Turkey and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 Donald Fagen 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 Gian Franco Pienzio to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brass Construction 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Aloha Tigers,
Unwound,
Country Teasers,
These Immortal Souls,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Alice Coltrane,
Whodini,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sarah Menescal,
The Sonics,
Alison Limerick,
Barry Ungar,
Isaac Hayes,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
L. Decosne,
The Grass Roots,
Bob Dylan,
Amon Düül II,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Gerry Rafferty,
Desert Stars,
Henry Cow,
Main Source,
Minutemen,
Faust,
Schoolly D,
Eurythmics,
Ituana,
The Slits,
Saccharine Trust,
Todd Rundgren,
Los Fastidios,
Yusef Lateef,
Joensuu 1685,
Eric Copeland,
Sugar Minott,
Glenn Branca,
Jimmy McGriff,
Chris & Cosey,
48th St. Collective,
Thompson Twins,
The Martian,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Matthew Halsall,
Barclay James Harvest,
Blancmange,
Scott Walker,
Dave Gahan,
Zero Boys,
the Human League,
Pantytec,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Count Five,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
A Certain Ratio,
Ultravox,
Pet Shop Boys,
Scion,
Quantec,
Model 500,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.