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 Ghana and from Cairo.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 the Swans to the techno 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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Avey Tare record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wasted Youth,
Soul II Soul,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
K-Klass,
Sound Behaviour,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Beau Brummels,
Warsaw,
The Modern Lovers,
FM Einheit,
Qualms,
UT,
ABBA,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Matthew Bourne,
Visage,
Piero Umiliani,
Bootsy Collins,
Moss Icon,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Index,
DJ Style,
The Offenders,
Lalann,
Pagans,
The Detroit Cobras,
Letta Mbulu,
Ralphi Rosario,
The New Christs,
Tres Demented,
Los Fastidios,
Bluetip,
Juan Atkins,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Litter,
The Fall,
Kurtis Blow,
Main Source,
Sam Rivers,
Ultravox,
Stereo Dub,
Babytalk,
Black Bananas,
Idris Muhammad,
Al Stewart,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Steve Hackett,
Make Up,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Fat Boys,
Joe Smooth,
Drexciya,
Alison Limerick,
The Raincoats,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Morten Harket,
the Soft Cell,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bronski Beat,
Audionom,
The Cowsills,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.