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 Bhutan and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 linndrum 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 Quadrant to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Crash Course in Science. All the underground hits.
All Soul II Soul tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eli Mardock record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Bananas,
Shuggie Otis,
Stereo Dub,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Moleskins,
Minnie Riperton,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Au Pairs,
The Flesh Eaters,
Iggy Pop,
John Lydon,
Harpers Bizarre,
Thompson Twins,
Accadde A,
Symarip,
Kaleidoscope,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Derrick Morgan,
Rosa Yemen,
Joy Division,
Pantaleimon,
Von Mondo,
Jeff Lynne,
Gong,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eric Copeland,
U.S. Maple,
Connie Case,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Pharoah Sanders,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Rotary Connection,
Hashim,
Sam Rivers,
David Axelrod,
Ralphi Rosario,
Vladislav Delay,
Swans,
Lebanon Hanover,
Main Source,
R.M.O.,
Scratch Acid,
Sonic Youth,
Kurtis Blow,
Slick Rick,
The Raincoats,
Surgeon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Warren Ellis,
Wire,
Alphaville,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Dual Sessions,
Nick Fraelich,
Television,
The Martian,
Radiohead,
Tropical Tobacco,
La Düsseldorf,
Delon & Dalcan,
Royal Trux,
Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül, Amon Düül.
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.