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 Peru and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Neu! to the grime 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 The Mojo Men. All the underground hits.
All The Gap Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang of Four record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Gun Club record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Pantytec,
Robert Görl,
Mission of Burma,
The Index,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bill Wells,
The Velvet Underground,
La Düsseldorf,
Aswad,
Spoonie Gee,
Flash Fearless,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Iggy Pop,
Amon Düül II,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Evens,
The Kinks,
Young Marble Giants,
Nick Fraelich,
Gong,
F. McDonald,
Albert Ayler,
Jeff Mills,
Isaac Hayes,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Glambeats Corp.,
John Foxx,
Q65,
Ten City,
the Bar-Kays,
10cc,
Whodini,
a-ha,
Matthew Bourne,
Ken Boothe,
The Shadows of Knight,
Vainqueur,
Laurel Aitken,
Erykah Badu,
Easy Going,
Pagans,
Hasil Adkins,
Carl Craig,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The American Breed,
Radiopuhelimet,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Moody Blues,
Henry Cow,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Lee Hazlewood,
Pulsallama,
Smog,
Japan,
Bill Near,
Grandmaster Flash,
Fugazi,
Groovy Waters,
Cal Tjader,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.