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 Bahamas and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 spring reverb 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 Dead Boys to the funk 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 The New Christs. All the underground hits.
All The Electric Prunes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fort Wilson Riot record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Spandau Ballet,
Technova,
FM Einheit,
Whodini,
The Moleskins,
Joy Division,
Von Mondo,
Jawbox,
Donny Hathaway,
Idris Muhammad,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Roy Ayers,
The Gap Band,
The Dave Clark Five,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Lightning Bolt,
Hoover,
The Pop Group,
10cc,
Blossom Toes,
Heaven 17,
Stereo Dub,
Maleditus Sound,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Thompson Twins,
The Names,
Rekid,
The Young Rascals,
Rotary Connection,
Pantaleimon,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Dirtbombs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Crime,
The Human League,
Prince Buster,
Girls At Our Best!,
Al Stewart,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Curtis Mayfield,
Pere Ubu,
Andrew Hill,
Amon Düül,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
CMW,
Ken Boothe,
John Coltrane,
Drive Like Jehu,
Tears for Fears,
Khruangbin,
The Mojo Men,
The Fire Engines,
Nils Olav,
Underground Resistance,
Black Pus,
The Smoke,
Sister Nancy,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Fall,
Amon Düül II,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.