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 Cuba and from Madrid.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Winnipeg.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lakeside to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Graham Central Station. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every CMW record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gabor Szabo,
Mantronix,
ABBA,
KRS-One,
Icehouse,
The Seeds,
Lou Reed,
Pantytec,
Thee Headcoats,
Monks,
Ultimate Spinach,
Man Parrish,
The Cowsills,
Roger Hodgson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Searchers,
Aloha Tigers,
Quantec,
Neil Young,
The Index,
Marvin Gaye,
Dorothy Ashby,
Jerry's Kids,
Rod Modell,
Gang Starr,
Soul Sonic Force,
JFA,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
X-101,
Gil Scott Heron,
Soft Machine,
Chrome,
Colin Newman,
Lucky Dragons,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gang Gang Dance,
Massinfluence,
Heaven 17,
Lee Hazlewood,
Connie Case,
Max Romeo,
Skaos,
Depeche Mode,
The Smiths,
Letta Mbulu,
The Vogues,
The Evens,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
the Sonics,
The Associates,
Urselle,
Radiopuhelimet,
La Düsseldorf,
Maleditus Sound,
Oblivians,
The Sound,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.