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 Malaysia and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 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 The Names to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blues Magoos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
Second Layer,
cv313,
The J.B.'s,
The Barracudas,
Stockholm Monsters,
Joensuu 1685,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pagans,
Donald Byrd,
Kayak,
James White and The Blacks,
The Gap Band,
Grandmaster Flash,
June Days,
Ossler,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sonic Youth,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Busters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Neu!,
Curtis Mayfield,
Metal Thangz,
The Pop Group,
Avey Tare,
Black Moon,
Deakin,
Eric B and Rakim,
Sällskapet,
Black Pus,
Stereo Dub,
Youth Brigade,
Eurythmics,
Hardrive,
Bizarre Inc.,
Dual Sessions,
Nico,
The Zeros,
Erasure,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Black Dice,
Maurizio,
Tubeway Army,
Mad Mike,
Charles Mingus,
Massinfluence,
Surgeon,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Al Stewart,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
New Age Steppers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ornette Coleman,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Jeru the Damaja,
Moebius,
Ultravox,
Amon Düül II,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis, Oppenheimer Analysis.
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.