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 Malta and from Bremen.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Sound Behaviour to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Flipper. All the underground hits.
All Justin Hinds & The Dominoes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James White and The Blacks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cabaret Voltaire 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?
Neu!,
Scan 7,
Sixth Finger,
Eric Copeland,
Moby Grape,
Absolute Body Control,
Marcia Griffiths,
Moss Icon,
MC5,
The Electric Prunes,
Patti Smith,
Peter & Gordon,
Robert Hood,
Adolescents,
the Normal,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
David Axelrod,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rotary Connection,
Ornette Coleman,
The Buckinghams,
Alison Limerick,
Lightning Bolt,
The Busters,
Mantronix,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Black Moon,
The United States of America,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Leaves,
Bauhaus,
Subhumans,
Radio Birdman,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Aural Exciters,
Underground Resistance,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Nick Fraelich,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gang Gang Dance,
EPMD,
kango's stein massive,
Ossler,
The Zeros,
Anakelly,
Arcadia,
Excepter,
Joe Smooth,
The Smoke,
Ultravox,
Lyres,
The Cure,
Public Enemy,
R.M.O.,
Negative Approach,
Pagans,
Von Mondo,
Japan,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.