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 Bulgaria and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 linndrum 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 Warren Ellis to the grime 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 Dennis Brown. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
The Electric Prunes,
Ronnie Foster,
Sound Behaviour,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Brothers Johnson,
Royal Trux,
Cymande,
Rekid,
Hoover,
Crispian St. Peters,
Darondo,
the Germs,
48th St. Collective,
Angry Samoans,
Flamin' Groovies,
New Age Steppers,
Hashim,
Don Cherry,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Pagans,
Yusef Lateef,
Sly & The Family Stone,
10cc,
Theoretical Girls,
The Busters,
Can,
Kurtis Blow,
Johnny Osbourne,
the Normal,
Magma,
Junior Murvin,
The Cramps,
The Detroit Cobras,
Camberwell Now,
Urselle,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Desert Stars,
June Days,
Stiv Bators,
The Gladiators,
The Cowsills,
Kenny Larkin,
The Seeds,
The Smiths,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Zeros,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Cluster,
Spandau Ballet,
Nirvana,
Joey Negro,
Skarface,
Dennis Brown,
Scientists,
Radiopuhelimet,
Marcia Griffiths,
Soul II Soul,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.