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 Yemen and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Public Image Ltd. to the electroclash 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 Major Organ And The Adding Machine. All the underground hits.
All The Royal Family And The Poor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantaleimon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smoke,
The Vogues,
Kool Moe Dee,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
D'Angelo,
Nils Olav,
DJ Style,
The Doors,
The Associates,
Big Daddy Kane,
In Retrospect,
Girls At Our Best!,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Echospace,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Derrick May,
Leonard Cohen,
E-Dancer,
Sight & Sound,
Avey Tare,
Lakeside,
Wasted Youth,
Gil Scott Heron,
China Crisis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Warren Ellis,
The Electric Prunes,
Little Man,
Fear,
The Durutti Column,
PIL,
Electric Prunes,
The Raincoats,
Vladislav Delay,
Todd Terry,
Bluetip,
The Golliwogs,
Soft Cell,
The Standells,
The Fortunes,
Arcadia,
Amon Düül II,
Bush Tetras,
Sun Ra,
Hashim,
The Mojo Men,
Monks,
Roger Hodgson,
Yazoo,
Warsaw,
Freddie Wadling,
Toni Rubio,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Eve St. Jones,
Colin Newman,
Blossom Toes,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Agitation Free,
Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth, Joe Smooth.
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.