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 Mauritania and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 marimba 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 Subhumans to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Robert Hood. All the underground hits.
All Roger Hodgson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Robert Wyatt 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 mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Slits record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Monolake,
The Trojans,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sound Behaviour,
Kool Moe Dee,
Faraquet,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Brick,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Shadows of Knight,
Subhumans,
Deepchord,
Joy Division,
Sparks,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Dark Day,
Electric Prunes,
Whodini,
Grauzone,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Babytalk,
UT,
The Raincoats,
Joyce Sims,
Quadrant,
Eurythmics,
Ohio Players,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Fluxion,
Ultimate Spinach,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Young Rascals,
Cameo,
Qualms,
Mars,
Pulsallama,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sällskapet,
Depeche Mode,
Ponytail,
Ice-T,
Janne Schatter,
MC5,
Letta Mbulu,
DJ Sneak,
Animal Collective,
Godley & Creme,
Roxette,
Yaz,
The Pop Group,
Sex Pistols,
Panda Bear,
Delta 5,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cluster,
The J.B.'s,
The Dirtbombs,
Joe Finger,
Accadde A,
Niagra,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Nation of Ulysses,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
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.