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 Dominica and from Manila.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Drive Like Jehu to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Liliput. All the underground hits.
All Marine Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Wells 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Anthony Braxton,
Joe Finger,
Stiv Bators,
Brand Nubian,
Zero Boys,
Wally Richardson,
Desert Stars,
Blossom Toes,
Masters at Work,
Organ,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Black Flag,
Cecil Taylor,
Nas,
Sound Behaviour,
Ken Boothe,
Arab on Radar,
Matthew Halsall,
Michelle Simonal,
Pylon,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Marshall Jefferson,
Interpol,
Traffic Nightmare,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Animal Collective,
Qualms,
Cybotron,
Reagan Youth,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Sarah Menescal,
Babytalk,
The Toasters,
Massinfluence,
Neil Young,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
10cc,
Skaos,
Barbara Tucker,
Echospace,
Outsiders,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Au Pairs,
Flipper,
Danielle Patucci,
Shoche,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scion,
Joey Negro,
The Sound,
Black Sheep,
One Last Wish,
Camberwell Now,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Siglo XX,
UT,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bobby Hutcherson,
John Holt,
Jandek,
Howard Jones,
The Blues Magoos,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.