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 Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Columbus.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Buzzcocks to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Von Mondo. All the underground hits.
All Intrusion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barry Ungar 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cowsills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Altered Images,
Junior Murvin,
Ken Boothe,
The Young Rascals,
Black Moon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Los Fastidios,
Dorothy Ashby,
Radiopuhelimet,
Yellowson,
Todd Rundgren,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Albert Ayler,
KRS-One,
The Motions,
Buzzcocks,
Neil Young,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Metal Thangz,
Robert Wyatt,
Iggy Pop,
Crash Course in Science,
Dead Boys,
Kenny Larkin,
The Moody Blues,
La Düsseldorf,
Sarah Menescal,
Liliput,
Trumans Water,
Outsiders,
Animal Collective,
Roger Hodgson,
Lower 48,
The Searchers,
Anakelly,
John Cale,
The Smiths,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
H. Thieme,
LL Cool J,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Susan Cadogan,
Television Personalities,
Scientists,
The Human League,
Al Stewart,
Sister Nancy,
Rakim,
Echospace,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Tubeway Army,
June Days,
Sparks,
Easy Going,
The Dirtbombs,
Sugar Minott,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
New York Dolls,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.