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 Peru and from Philadelphia.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 808 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 Goldenarms to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Echospace 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
June Days,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bobby Womack,
New York Dolls,
Piero Umiliani,
Crispian St. Peters,
Howard Jones,
Spoonie Gee,
Matthew Bourne,
Todd Rundgren,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Gladiators,
The Fall,
The Slits,
The Remains,
Q and Not U,
Rotary Connection,
Minny Pops,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Severed Heads,
This Heat,
The Grass Roots,
Flash Fearless,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Martian,
Mo-Dettes,
FM Einheit,
Robert Görl,
Gil Scott Heron,
Suicide,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Wally Richardson,
Main Source,
Black Flag,
Circle Jerks,
Lakeside,
Dorothy Ashby,
Ossler,
Groovy Waters,
Tim Buckley,
Rosa Yemen,
Yazoo,
Janne Schatter,
The Monks,
New Age Steppers,
Grey Daturas,
Khruangbin,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Jeru the Damaja,
Girls At Our Best!,
John Holt,
The Fortunes,
Urselle,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Black Bananas,
The Knickerbockers,
ABBA,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.