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 Gabon and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Thompson Twins. All the underground hits.
All Selector Dub Narcotic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rod Modell 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar 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 organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fluxion,
The Fugs,
Goldenarms,
Absolute Body Control,
David Axelrod,
Stetsasonic,
Wings,
Matthew Halsall,
Erykah Badu,
Neil Young,
Joy Division,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Tres Demented,
Massinfluence,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Sonics,
The Grass Roots,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Nico,
Robert Wyatt,
The Music Machine,
Qualms,
KRS-One,
The Velvet Underground,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Loose Ends,
June Days,
Black Moon,
The Sound,
Connie Case,
Liliput,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Byron Stingily,
Popol Vuh,
LL Cool J,
The Divine Comedy,
The Martian,
Graham Central Station,
Agent Orange,
Crime,
The Gories,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Eve St. Jones,
The Trojans,
The Residents,
Sonic Youth,
EPMD,
Rekid,
L. Decosne,
The Wake,
Bronski Beat,
Erasure,
Siglo XX,
Subhumans,
Accadde A,
Davy DMX,
Newcleus,
The Mojo Men,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman, Colin Newman.
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.