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 Slovakia and from Toronto.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 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 Can to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Roy Ayers. All the underground hits.
All Dead Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eyeless In Gaza record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scrapy,
Reagan Youth,
Jacques Brel,
Quadrant,
Lou Christie,
Popol Vuh,
Flash Fearless,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Agitation Free,
Crime,
The Seeds,
Quando Quango,
The Leaves,
The Invisible,
Sandy B,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bobby Sherman,
Peter & Gordon,
The Neon Judgement,
UT,
Piero Umiliani,
Fear,
David McCallum,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rotary Connection,
The Beau Brummels,
Oneida,
Ash Ra Tempel,
ABC,
Tres Demented,
The Wake,
Silicon Teens,
Mission of Burma,
Marcia Griffiths,
Mandrill,
Youth Brigade,
Cymande,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Stiv Bators,
the Bar-Kays,
Porter Ricks,
Pussy Galore,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Essential Logic,
Hashim,
PIL,
Skaos,
Joe Smooth,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Chris & Cosey,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Gap Band,
Radiohead,
Pylon,
Suburban Knight,
Bob Dylan,
Derrick Morgan,
Barbara Tucker,
Scan 7,
Brick,
Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5, Delta 5.
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.