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 Italy and from Cairo.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 guitar 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 Scott Walker to the funk 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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Angels of Light 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Saints,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sonny Sharrock,
Mission of Burma,
Index,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Durutti Column,
Dark Day,
Grauzone,
Supertramp,
Isaac Hayes,
Leonard Cohen,
Iggy Pop,
Saccharine Trust,
Bad Manners,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
the Slits,
Flash Fearless,
Mr. Review,
Wolf Eyes,
The Zeros,
JFA,
Kayak,
Junior Murvin,
Anthony Braxton,
Massinfluence,
Derrick May,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Peter and Kerry,
Fat Boys,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Human League,
Alice Coltrane,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Bobby Womack,
Grey Daturas,
Bobby Byrd,
Loose Ends,
John Lydon,
Basic Channel,
Ossler,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
David Bowie,
Pole,
Agitation Free,
Simply Red,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Circle Jerks,
China Crisis,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Franke,
The Tremeloes,
Sonic Youth,
The Victims,
Clear Light,
Fela Kuti,
Sun Ra,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience, Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience.
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.