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 Senegal and from Delhi.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bremen.
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 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 Ten City to the electroclash 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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jerry's Kids 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hardrive record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Joey Negro,
A Certain Ratio,
Urselle,
David Axelrod,
Bluetip,
Nick Fraelich,
Barry Ungar,
Pylon,
Guru Guru,
Peter & Gordon,
Deakin,
Warsaw,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Smog,
The Misunderstood,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kerri Chandler,
Au Pairs,
Jacques Brel,
Severed Heads,
Rites of Spring,
the Normal,
Eurythmics,
Loose Ends,
Quadrant,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Moby Grape,
The Buckinghams,
Donald Byrd,
Bob Dylan,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Black Flag,
Susan Cadogan,
Alton Ellis,
Tropical Tobacco,
Juan Atkins,
Joensuu 1685,
Porter Ricks,
Sound Behaviour,
Gichy Dan,
Lee Hazlewood,
Glenn Branca,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Doors,
Marvin Gaye,
The Golliwogs,
Kurtis Blow,
Josef K,
Robert Hood,
New Age Steppers,
Andrew Hill,
The Martian,
The Names,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gerry Rafferty,
the Human League,
Eden Ahbez,
Hardrive,
E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer, E-Dancer.
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.