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 United Kingdom and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 marimba 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 Main Source to the crunk 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 Neu!. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Throbbing Gristle 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 theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
The Buckinghams,
The Birthday Party,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sandy B,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Sonics,
Vainqueur,
MC5,
Goldenarms,
T.S.O.L.,
The Seeds,
Dennis Brown,
Robert Görl,
Bizarre Inc.,
Joensuu 1685,
B.T. Express,
Brass Construction,
Sly & The Family Stone,
8 Eyed Spy,
Gang Starr,
Arthur Verocai,
Ponytail,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Newcleus,
Albert Ayler,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Iggy Pop,
Godley & Creme,
Deakin,
Von Mondo,
Blake Baxter,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jeff Mills,
Bootsy Collins,
Marshall Jefferson,
KRS-One,
Isaac Hayes,
Pylon,
The New Christs,
Little Man,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Young Rascals,
Black Bananas,
Joe Finger,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Y Pants,
Unwound,
Audionom,
The Martian,
Rapeman,
Scott Walker,
Crash Course in Science,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Raincoats,
Sixth Finger,
Rekid,
Oneida, Oneida, Oneida, Oneida.
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.