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 Israel and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Piero Umiliani to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a This Heat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Reagan Youth,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pole,
Little Man,
Pagans,
Cecil Taylor,
Pet Shop Boys,
the Sonics,
The Music Machine,
Althea and Donna,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Jeff Lynne,
The Pop Group,
Drive Like Jehu,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Soft Cell,
Kenny Larkin,
Bang On A Can,
Cybotron,
Tears for Fears,
Anakelly,
Masters at Work,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Khruangbin,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cameo,
Darondo,
Pulsallama,
the Soft Cell,
Fugazi,
Laurel Aitken,
Sun Ra,
Morten Harket,
Kevin Saunderson,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Standells,
Reuben Wilson,
Bootsy Collins,
Arthur Verocai,
Nas,
Rod Modell,
Joe Smooth,
The Motions,
Skarface,
Infiniti,
Howard Jones,
Gregory Isaacs,
Big Daddy Kane,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Quando Quango,
David Axelrod,
Alice Coltrane,
Sun City Girls,
ABC,
Barclay James Harvest,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Echospace,
Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway, Donny Hathaway.
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.