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 Croatia and from Houston.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 10cc to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moby Grape 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Selecter,
The Victims,
Juan Atkins,
The Neon Judgement,
Liliput,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Crash Course in Science,
The Dave Clark Five,
Max Romeo,
Peter & Gordon,
The Smoke,
Monolake,
The Slits,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Avey Tare,
Amon Düül II,
The Doobie Brothers,
Hoover,
Fear,
Eric Copeland,
Y Pants,
Subhumans,
Fela Kuti,
Blake Baxter,
John Coltrane,
The Wake,
Rhythm & Sound,
Youth Brigade,
Lou Christie,
Kerri Chandler,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Dawn Penn,
Kerrie Biddell,
Barclay James Harvest,
Radiohead,
Anakelly,
Cameo,
DJ Sneak,
FM Einheit,
Todd Terry,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Blackbyrds,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Swell Maps,
Delon & Dalcan,
Rakim,
Gichy Dan,
Dave Gahan,
Soft Machine,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Intrusion,
D'Angelo,
Eyeless In Gaza,
UT,
Lalann,
Electric Prunes,
Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A, Accadde A.
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.