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 Nicaragua and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Wings to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Qualms. All the underground hits.
All Pet Shop Boys tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every One Last Wish 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
Derrick Morgan,
Fugazi,
Moss Icon,
Electric Prunes,
Essential Logic,
Sällskapet,
Kerri Chandler,
Susan Cadogan,
Soul II Soul,
This Heat,
Deakin,
Mo-Dettes,
Derrick May,
The Monks,
The Zeros,
Letta Mbulu,
Harmonia,
Janne Schatter,
CMW,
Mark Hollis,
Joey Negro,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Andrew Hill,
Terry Callier,
Cal Tjader,
The Motions,
Deepchord,
Goldenarms,
Hasil Adkins,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Harpers Bizarre,
Rites of Spring,
Matthew Bourne,
Echospace,
Basic Channel,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Fortunes,
Girls At Our Best!,
Wire,
Byron Stingily,
Khruangbin,
The Victims,
Alton Ellis,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
DJ Sneak,
Yazoo,
Lakeside,
Liliput,
Scan 7,
Johnny Clarke,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Dennis Brown,
Barbara Tucker,
Godley & Creme,
a-ha,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Velvet Underground,
KRS-One,
the Germs,
These Immortal Souls,
Rapeman,
Alice Coltrane,
Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones.
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.