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 Liechtenstein and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Basic Channel to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Tommy Roe. All the underground hits.
All Barclay James Harvest tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar 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 Jesus and Mary Chain,
Wasted Youth,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Warsaw,
Japan,
Terry Callier,
Curtis Mayfield,
Public Enemy,
The Selecter,
Piero Umiliani,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Siglo XX,
Funkadelic,
the Bar-Kays,
Althea and Donna,
Kenny Larkin,
Suburban Knight,
Marine Girls,
Chris & Cosey,
Fugazi,
Danielle Patucci,
Technova,
The Fall,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Susan Cadogan,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Skriet,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Black Dice,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Suicide,
Joe Smooth,
Joe Finger,
John Coltrane,
Angry Samoans,
Nas,
In Retrospect,
Ultimate Spinach,
Make Up,
Frankie Knuckles,
Cameo,
Thompson Twins,
Soul Sonic Force,
Tubeway Army,
Yusef Lateef,
Zero Boys,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Little Man,
Lou Christie,
Sonic Youth,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Radiohead,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Second Layer,
Average White Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
the Sonics,
Prince Buster,
Hardrive,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Liliput,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.