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 Kuwait and from Jakarta.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 guitar 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 Skriet to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All FM Einheit tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every DJ Style record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Derrick Morgan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jawbox,
the Soft Cell,
Japan,
Frankie Knuckles,
Jandek,
The Trojans,
DNA,
The Five Americans,
June of 44,
The Buckinghams,
Harry Pussy,
Lightning Bolt,
Pantaleimon,
Juan Atkins,
John Foxx,
Suburban Knight,
The Walker Brothers,
The Vogues,
Pharoah Sanders,
Graham Central Station,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roxette,
Soul II Soul,
Electric Light Orchestra,
This Heat,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Terry Callier,
Television,
The Pretty Things,
The Names,
Alphaville,
Ohio Players,
10cc,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Invisible,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kurtis Blow,
Dawn Penn,
Ludus,
Ultravox,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Byron Stingily,
Sonny Sharrock,
Quantec,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Crooked Eye,
Kaleidoscope,
Bob Dylan,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Searchers,
Danielle Patucci,
Todd Terry,
Sexual Harrassment,
Toni Rubio,
Nick Fraelich,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Wasted Youth,
Yusef Lateef,
Thompson Twins,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.