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 Hungary and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 theremin 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 Wolf Eyes to the rock 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 Black Bananas. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DeepChord presents Echospace record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nils Olav,
Cluster,
Sandy B,
Joensuu 1685,
Boz Scaggs,
Half Japanese,
Danielle Patucci,
Henry Cow,
The Mummies,
Panda Bear,
Hardrive,
Arthur Verocai,
Gong,
Bobby Womack,
The Fugs,
cv313,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dorothy Ashby,
Stockholm Monsters,
Wolf Eyes,
Rufus Thomas,
Ludus,
Dennis Brown,
Japan,
Soft Cell,
Michelle Simonal,
8 Eyed Spy,
Von Mondo,
The Alarm Clocks,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kerri Chandler,
Peter & Gordon,
New York Dolls,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Bobby Byrd,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Intrusion,
Junior Murvin,
The Cure,
The Moody Blues,
Lightning Bolt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Leaves,
The Gap Band,
Jandek,
The Human League,
Boredoms,
Sixth Finger,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gang Green,
Sällskapet,
Pet Shop Boys,
Dead Boys,
Mr. Review,
The Fall,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
T. Rex,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Harmonia,
Eric Copeland,
The Saints,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.