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 Korea North and from Lyon.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lalann to the jazz 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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Tommy Roe tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Davy DMX record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kaleidoscope,
The Walker Brothers,
Blake Baxter,
David McCallum,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Misunderstood,
Rhythm & Sound,
Hot Snakes,
Ornette Coleman,
Make Up,
Boogie Down Productions,
Crispian St. Peters,
Mo-Dettes,
Theoretical Girls,
Wolf Eyes,
Essential Logic,
The Residents,
Half Japanese,
Peter & Gordon,
Camouflage,
CMW,
Swans,
Fat Boys,
Anthony Braxton,
the Sonics,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Mark Hollis,
Television Personalities,
Erykah Badu,
Wally Richardson,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Outsiders,
Little Man,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Mission of Burma,
The Doobie Brothers,
Yazoo,
Ten City,
The Skatalites,
Joyce Sims,
Jeff Mills,
The Selecter,
Toni Rubio,
China Crisis,
Joensuu 1685,
Barbara Tucker,
Rapeman,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Boredoms,
Radio Birdman,
The Trojans,
The Angels of Light,
Rosa Yemen,
Saccharine Trust,
Nils Olav,
Gang Gang Dance,
Warren Ellis,
The Divine Comedy,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.