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 Albania and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 organ 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 Ronnie Foster to the dance 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 The Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Stiv Bators tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marvin Gaye record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
X-102,
Sound Behaviour,
Zapp,
Soul II Soul,
Arthur Verocai,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Move,
Unwound,
Lungfish,
Intrusion,
B.T. Express,
Big Daddy Kane,
Pierre Henry,
Hot Snakes,
Severed Heads,
Stereo Dub,
Sexual Harrassment,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Ludus,
The Star Department,
The Red Krayola,
The Standells,
Jimmy McGriff,
Arcadia,
Idris Muhammad,
Sight & Sound,
The Electric Prunes,
Radiohead,
DJ Style,
Harmonia,
Ossler,
Brothers Johnson,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pagans,
The Saints,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Vladislav Delay,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Doors,
Bootsy Collins,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lou Reed,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Searchers,
Yusef Lateef,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ponytail,
Swans,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Rapeman,
La Düsseldorf,
FM Einheit,
The Zeros,
Sällskapet,
Rekid,
Minny Pops,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Royal Trux,
The Monochrome Set,
Bang On A Can,
Don Cherry,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Slave, Slave, Slave, Slave.
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.