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 St Lucia and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Grauzone to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All X-102 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joensuu 1685 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 synthesizer and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Letta Mbulu,
Anakelly,
Roy Ayers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sarah Menescal,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Smoke,
Rhythm & Sound,
ABBA,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Sparks,
JFA,
Lalo Schifrin,
Janne Schatter,
Q and Not U,
Clear Light,
The Leaves,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Flesh Eaters,
Carl Craig,
Magma,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Soul Sonic Force,
Deakin,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Laurel Aitken,
Dawn Penn,
Camouflage,
Gichy Dan,
Silicon Teens,
Ken Boothe,
The Grass Roots,
Ultra Naté,
Bootsy Collins,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sonic Youth,
The Motions,
Jeff Mills,
Aural Exciters,
Boogie Down Productions,
Barrington Levy,
Kas Product,
AZ,
Altered Images,
Delta 5,
Kayak,
Ossler,
Joyce Sims,
Icehouse,
Alphaville,
Moby Grape,
Procol Harum,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The New Christs,
Radiopuhelimet,
Royal Trux,
Underground Resistance,
Model 500,
Jeru the Damaja,
Con Funk Shun,
Colin Newman,
Suicide, Suicide, Suicide, Suicide.
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.