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 Norway and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Matthew Halsall to the punk 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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Vainqueur tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minutemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Flamin' Groovies record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lungfish,
Harmonia,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bootsy Collins,
Stereo Dub,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Whodini,
June of 44,
Rekid,
Mantronix,
New Age Steppers,
Sunsets and Hearts,
David McCallum,
a-ha,
Judy Mowatt,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lucky Dragons,
Black Flag,
Amon Düül II,
Kerri Chandler,
Eric Copeland,
Roger Hodgson,
Curtis Mayfield,
Blossom Toes,
Sound Behaviour,
Hoover,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Can,
Smog,
Janne Schatter,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rhythm & Sound,
John Foxx,
Pere Ubu,
Sun City Girls,
K-Klass,
ABBA,
The Victims,
Niagra,
Radio Birdman,
Derrick May,
Eurythmics,
Gil Scott Heron,
Tears for Fears,
Talk Talk,
The Standells,
Piero Umiliani,
Peter & Gordon,
Scratch Acid,
Harry Pussy,
The Gun Club,
Skarface,
Arcadia,
The Doors,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Tubeway Army,
the Association,
Marshall Jefferson,
Eric Dolphy,
Zero Boys,
Ituana,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.