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 Antigua and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic 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 the Association. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deepchord record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Soft Cell,
Echospace,
the Fania All-Stars,
Monolake,
Tropical Tobacco,
Flash Fearless,
Visage,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Neon Judgement,
Zapp,
Clear Light,
Crash Course in Science,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Leaves,
Funky Four + One,
The Pop Group,
Delta 5,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sandy B,
Soft Cell,
Zero Boys,
The Human League,
Janne Schatter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sun City Girls,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Lalann,
Wings,
Derrick Morgan,
Fugazi,
Magazine,
Bad Manners,
Eden Ahbez,
Technova,
The Fire Engines,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Remains,
Todd Rundgren,
Y Pants,
Whodini,
Chris & Cosey,
F. McDonald,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Piero Umiliani,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Fall,
Mr. Review,
The Invisible,
Index,
ABBA,
Jimmy McGriff,
Bluetip,
The Sonics,
Essential Logic,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bill Wells,
Marmalade,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.