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 Luxembourg and from Shanghai.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the oboe 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 Johnny Clarke to the grime 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 Liaisons Dangereuses. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Tremeloes,
Black Bananas,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Mary Jane Girls,
Brass Construction,
The Pop Group,
Cluster,
Eurythmics,
Das Ding,
Agitation Free,
Blancmange,
Tears for Fears,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sarah Menescal,
Aural Exciters,
X-101,
Slave,
Kaleidoscope,
Sugar Minott,
Vainqueur,
Roy Ayers,
Accadde A,
The American Breed,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Reagan Youth,
Mandrill,
Gil Scott Heron,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Junior Murvin,
The Human League,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Aloha Tigers,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Jacob Miller,
Rhythm & Sound,
Von Mondo,
Deakin,
Albert Ayler,
The Kinks,
Ice-T,
Roger Hodgson,
Banda Bassotti,
Gerry Rafferty,
Lalann,
Eric Copeland,
The Misunderstood,
The Saints,
Freddie Wadling,
Desert Stars,
The Durutti Column,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Residents,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Essential Logic,
Leonard Cohen,
Mo-Dettes,
Visage,
B.T. Express,
Letta Mbulu,
Q and Not U,
Gang of Four,
Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal, Michelle Simonal.
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.