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 Sri Lanka and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Residents 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 Cheater Slicks. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dead Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rhythm & Sound,
Bizarre Inc.,
World's Most,
New Order,
Quadrant,
Matthew Bourne,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Oblivians,
Robert Wyatt,
Heaven 17,
Glambeats Corp.,
Scratch Acid,
F. McDonald,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Wolf Eyes,
Mo-Dettes,
Yazoo,
Sun Ra,
A Certain Ratio,
Magma,
Sparks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
FM Einheit,
Jacques Brel,
Fluxion,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Amon Düül II,
Rufus Thomas,
Trumans Water,
UT,
Barry Ungar,
E-Dancer,
Groovy Waters,
Vainqueur,
One Last Wish,
Erasure,
Ultra Naté,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joe Smooth,
The Gladiators,
The Zeros,
Funkadelic,
Bootsy Collins,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Skaos,
Amazonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Index,
Jesper Dahlback,
Marc Almond,
Dual Sessions,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jimmy McGriff,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Interpol,
Maleditus Sound,
The Victims,
Infiniti,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.