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 Libya and from Stockholm.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manchester.
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 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 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 OOIOO to the rock 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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All Porter Ricks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Association 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Carl Craig record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Swell Maps,
The Velvet Underground,
UT,
The Motions,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jeff Lynne,
Spoonie Gee,
Royal Trux,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Q and Not U,
Girls At Our Best!,
R.M.O.,
Colin Newman,
Goldenarms,
Bootsy Collins,
Cameo,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Popol Vuh,
Young Marble Giants,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
the Normal,
Lakeside,
Minutemen,
The Smoke,
The Neon Judgement,
the Swans,
Black Moon,
Ohio Players,
Cheater Slicks,
Althea and Donna,
Ludus,
The Pretty Things,
Reuben Wilson,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Slackers,
James White and The Blacks,
Delta 5,
Pylon,
The Gap Band,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Funkadelic,
Sugar Minott,
Lindisfarne,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Babytalk,
Neu!,
Joe Finger,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Symarip,
Stockholm Monsters,
Liliput,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pharoah Sanders,
Godley & Creme,
Half Japanese,
cv313,
Donald Byrd,
Saccharine Trust,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse, Neil Young & Crazy Horse.
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.