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 Liberia and from Glasgow.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Spandau Ballet to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Accadde A. All the underground hits.
All Reuben Wilson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Royal Family And The Poor 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neu!,
MDC,
Sound Behaviour,
Lakeside,
Shuggie Otis,
Roy Ayers,
Kerri Chandler,
Oneida,
Gichy Dan,
Can,
Saccharine Trust,
Althea and Donna,
Radiohead,
Minny Pops,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Searchers,
Don Cherry,
Sarah Menescal,
Idris Muhammad,
Nico,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Alice Coltrane,
Letta Mbulu,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pylon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sugar Minott,
Spoonie Gee,
Flamin' Groovies,
ABC,
Livin' Joy,
Zero Boys,
The Toasters,
Radiopuhelimet,
OOIOO,
Chris Corsano,
The J.B.'s,
James White and The Blacks,
The Dirtbombs,
Suicide,
The Modern Lovers,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Divine Comedy,
K-Klass,
Suburban Knight,
Sixth Finger,
Youth Brigade,
Thompson Twins,
Yellowson,
Ronan,
Barclay James Harvest,
Make Up,
The Cramps,
Pere Ubu,
Altered Images,
DJ Style,
Albert Ayler,
Severed Heads,
Excepter,
Ice-T,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.