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 Norway and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Jerry's Kids to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Rotary Connection. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ornette Coleman record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Heaven 17,
Marmalade,
Lalann,
Piero Umiliani,
Theoretical Girls,
The Happenings,
Popol Vuh,
The Invisible,
Kayak,
Janne Schatter,
Interpol,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Cluster,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Man Eating Sloth,
a-ha,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Pretty Things,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Terrestrial Tones,
Khruangbin,
Camberwell Now,
OOIOO,
Mandrill,
Ralphi Rosario,
Barrington Levy,
Stetsasonic,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Aloha Tigers,
Nils Olav,
Terry Callier,
Mars,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Cybotron,
Cecil Taylor,
Rhythm & Sound,
Faraquet,
Shoche,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Supertramp,
Magma,
Joe Finger,
David Axelrod,
Fluxion,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Icehouse,
Gang of Four,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jandek,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sarah Menescal,
Yusef Lateef,
Urselle,
Ludus,
Eli Mardock,
Soft Machine,
Freddie Wadling,
Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers, Roy Ayers.
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.