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 Iraq and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Mo-Dettes to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Infiniti. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crispy Ambulance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bronski Beat,
The Walker Brothers,
Josef K,
The Cramps,
Ornette Coleman,
Intrusion,
Can,
The Names,
Desert Stars,
Make Up,
Isaac Hayes,
The Electric Prunes,
Swans,
Tears for Fears,
Rakim,
The Buckinghams,
Banda Bassotti,
Panda Bear,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Johnny Osbourne,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Count Five,
Monolake,
The Sound,
The Evens,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tres Demented,
OOIOO,
Quadrant,
Donny Hathaway,
the Normal,
Kerrie Biddell,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Accadde A,
Sixth Finger,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Niagra,
Excepter,
Neil Young,
MDC,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mantronix,
Sonny Sharrock,
Jeff Lynne,
Y Pants,
The Tremeloes,
R.M.O.,
Japan,
Urselle,
Stereo Dub,
Negative Approach,
The Durutti Column,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Brand Nubian,
Arab on Radar,
Arcadia,
the Human League,
Dark Day,
The Residents,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Girls At Our Best!,
Ossler,
Boz Scaggs,
Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685, Joensuu 1685.
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.