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 Seychelles and from Johannesburg.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the grunge kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Guru Guru record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pussy Galore,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Iggy Pop,
Television,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Victims,
Matthew Bourne,
Drexciya,
Lou Reed,
Lakeside,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Livin' Joy,
Wolf Eyes,
Babytalk,
Terrestrial Tones,
Fat Boys,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Nik Kershaw,
Brand Nubian,
Blancmange,
F. McDonald,
Ronan,
Pantaleimon,
The Gories,
Andrew Hill,
R.M.O.,
Ultra Naté,
Erykah Badu,
Robert Hood,
Pere Ubu,
Simply Red,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Stockholm Monsters,
One Last Wish,
Godley & Creme,
Laurel Aitken,
Reagan Youth,
The Residents,
Jesper Dahlback,
Minnie Riperton,
Warsaw,
Funkadelic,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Robert Görl,
Cheater Slicks,
Unwound,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Minny Pops,
Slave,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Associates,
The Walker Brothers,
David McCallum,
Stiv Bators,
Deakin,
Nas,
Country Teasers,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler, Kerri Chandler.
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.