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 Trinidad & Tobago and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Doobie Brothers to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alphaville record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Richard Hell and the Voidoids record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Fear,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Depeche Mode,
Barry Ungar,
the Slits,
Sugar Minott,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
X-Ray Spex,
Chrome,
Mission of Burma,
The Black Dice,
The Smiths,
Robert Hood,
Inner City,
Arthur Verocai,
Surgeon,
Junior Murvin,
Amon Düül II,
Motorama,
Black Moon,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Music Machine,
Jeff Mills,
The Birthday Party,
Pussy Galore,
Godley & Creme,
The Beau Brummels,
Stereo Dub,
X-101,
Quando Quango,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Sound,
Pagans,
Frankie Knuckles,
Mary Jane Girls,
R.M.O.,
Ronan,
Banda Bassotti,
Neu!,
Radiohead,
The Velvet Underground,
48th St. Collective,
Marine Girls,
Nas,
Public Enemy,
The Doors,
Don Cherry,
Scan 7,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Sonics,
DNA,
Maurizio,
Kaleidoscope,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Swell Maps,
Minutemen,
Silicon Teens,
The Gap Band,
Dawn Penn,
cv313,
Blossom Toes,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.