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 Moldova and from Seoul.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 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 Freddie Wadling to the dance 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Absolute Body Control tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cymande record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Teasers,
Ice-T,
Average White Band,
Easy Going,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jeff Lynne,
Hardrive,
Main Source,
Outsiders,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Altered Images,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ronan,
Scratch Acid,
Minnie Riperton,
The Monks,
Bobbi Humphrey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
the Swans,
These Immortal Souls,
The Residents,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rapeman,
Boredoms,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Can,
Shuggie Otis,
Underground Resistance,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lower 48,
The Grass Roots,
Trumans Water,
The Walker Brothers,
The Slackers,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Desert Stars,
Darondo,
Jandek,
The Monochrome Set,
Theoretical Girls,
Ten City,
Sun City Girls,
Agent Orange,
Rufus Thomas,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Japan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Godley & Creme,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Gang of Four,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Slits,
The Real Kids,
Peter and Kerry,
The Dead C,
Young Marble Giants,
Agitation Free,
Half Japanese,
Tim Buckley,
Wire,
Cymande,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.