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 Laos and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 mellotron 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 Traffic Nightmare to the dance 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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All the Sonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crash Course in Science record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Crash Course in Science,
Quando Quango,
The Blackbyrds,
The Busters,
Grey Daturas,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Fugs,
Television Personalities,
The Move,
The Sonics,
Fort Wilson Riot,
B.T. Express,
London Community Gospel Choir,
EPMD,
Depeche Mode,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Prince Buster,
Warsaw,
the Slits,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
New Order,
Television,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Agent Orange,
8 Eyed Spy,
John Lydon,
Bauhaus,
Anakelly,
Second Layer,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Happenings,
Fugazi,
Agitation Free,
Sugar Minott,
Junior Murvin,
Moss Icon,
June of 44,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sällskapet,
Max Romeo,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lou Christie,
Marine Girls,
Lower 48,
Wolf Eyes,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Absolute Body Control,
Yazoo,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Accadde A,
Jeff Mills,
The Gories,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lightning Bolt,
Al Stewart,
Pantytec,
The Litter,
Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters.
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.