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 Cape Verde and from Lille.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Spokane.
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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Index to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Schoolly D tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lou Christie record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Magazine,
Maleditus Sound,
Bob Dylan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Skriet,
Half Japanese,
The Moody Blues,
Newcleus,
Bill Wells,
UT,
ABBA,
Barrington Levy,
Soft Cell,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Modern Lovers,
Joey Negro,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Heaven 17,
The Misunderstood,
Schoolly D,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lungfish,
Oblivians,
Oneida,
Sällskapet,
June Days,
Joy Division,
Harmonia,
Soul Sonic Force,
Stereo Dub,
Neu!,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Theoretical Girls,
Faraquet,
Chris & Cosey,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Magma,
Rod Modell,
MC5,
Jawbox,
Pylon,
Matthew Bourne,
Gang Green,
Icehouse,
Tears for Fears,
Mr. Review,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nas,
Hashim,
Slick Rick,
the Swans,
David Bowie,
Scan 7,
CMW,
Fat Boys,
Jerry's Kids,
Mad Mike,
The Velvet Underground,
The Blackbyrds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.