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 Belgium and from New York.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Outsiders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agitation Free record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flipper,
Matthew Halsall,
Ossler,
Amon Düül,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lyres,
LL Cool J,
Crispian St. Peters,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pole,
Moss Icon,
AZ,
Gabor Szabo,
a-ha,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Neil Young,
Roxy Music,
Byron Stingily,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Archie Shepp,
Gang of Four,
Tres Demented,
Connie Case,
The Move,
Cymande,
Nico,
Popol Vuh,
Interpol,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Walker Brothers,
Minutemen,
Pantytec,
The Techniques,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gong,
Kenny Larkin,
Agent Orange,
The Tremeloes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Hoover,
The Modern Lovers,
Nirvana,
Hot Snakes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boredoms,
Mission of Burma,
Brass Construction,
Bauhaus,
Rakim,
Throbbing Gristle,
Bootsy Collins,
The Wake,
Eve St. Jones,
Ohio Players,
the Human League,
John Foxx,
Blake Baxter,
Darondo,
Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys, Zero Boys.
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.