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 Brunei and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Fluxion to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All The Smiths tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Popol Vuh record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Colin Newman,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Make Up,
Procol Harum,
Bluetip,
Basic Channel,
Zero Boys,
Popol Vuh,
The Fire Engines,
The United States of America,
Blancmange,
Bobby Womack,
Ohio Players,
Stockholm Monsters,
EPMD,
Janne Schatter,
Black Flag,
Josef K,
Derrick May,
The Zeros,
The New Christs,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Hot Snakes,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Radiopuhelimet,
Tom Boy,
Soul II Soul,
Spoonie Gee,
Roy Ayers,
Morten Harket,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ultimate Spinach,
Matthew Bourne,
Sister Nancy,
Absolute Body Control,
Eli Mardock,
Roxette,
Anakelly,
Gabor Szabo,
Saccharine Trust,
Cluster,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
DJ Sneak,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Royal Trux,
kango's stein massive,
Dave Gahan,
Tropical Tobacco,
Kerrie Biddell,
Panda Bear,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Qualms,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ossler,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Joey Negro,
Excepter,
New Order,
Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics, Amazonics.
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.