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 Finland and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 mellotron 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))) to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Smiths record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Barracudas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scratch Acid,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Sarah Menescal,
Sonic Youth,
DNA,
Ice-T,
ABC,
Hashim,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Junior Murvin,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Carl Craig,
Theoretical Girls,
Easy Going,
The Gladiators,
Josef K,
The Cramps,
Gichy Dan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Roxette,
Agent Orange,
Swans,
Marmalade,
Stiv Bators,
Siglo XX,
Ponytail,
Lucky Dragons,
Amon Düül II,
Chris & Cosey,
Harmonia,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Bill Near,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Morten Harket,
Q and Not U,
Robert Wyatt,
The Real Kids,
Todd Rundgren,
Television,
The Names,
The Pretty Things,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marcia Griffiths,
Porter Ricks,
Michelle Simonal,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Barclay James Harvest,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rakim,
Matthew Halsall,
Kas Product,
Danielle Patucci,
Mandrill,
Mad Mike,
E-Dancer,
Visage,
Au Pairs,
the Normal,
T. Rex,
Lungfish,
Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader, Cal Tjader.
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.