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 Sweden and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 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 Alphaville to the electroclash 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 Agitation Free. All the underground hits.
All The Stooges tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
F. McDonald,
The Blues Magoos,
Danielle Patucci,
Metal Thangz,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sight & Sound,
Loose Ends,
Qualms,
Al Stewart,
Derrick Morgan,
The Skatalites,
Sound Behaviour,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Fugs,
The Evens,
Aural Exciters,
Sister Nancy,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Alton Ellis,
Deepchord,
Kerrie Biddell,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Mission of Burma,
Morten Harket,
Eve St. Jones,
Judy Mowatt,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Flesh Eaters,
Cheater Slicks,
The Sound,
The Smoke,
Erykah Badu,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Erasure,
Sam Rivers,
Absolute Body Control,
Robert Hood,
Sixth Finger,
Blossom Toes,
Sarah Menescal,
the Human League,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jacob Miller,
Skarface,
JFA,
Roxy Music,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Vainqueur,
The Busters,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cluster,
The American Breed,
Lucky Dragons,
Peter and Kerry,
Rekid,
Echospace,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Icehouse,
Ronan, Ronan, Ronan, Ronan.
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.