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 Jamaica and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 snare 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 Maurizio to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Lou Reed & Metallica. All the underground hits.
All The Detroit Cobras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a ABC record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Newcleus,
Visage,
Q65,
The Dave Clark Five,
Maurizio,
Soulsonic Force,
Aloha Tigers,
Sound Behaviour,
Robert Wyatt,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Gabor Szabo,
Sonny Sharrock,
Franke,
Barry Ungar,
Pere Ubu,
Los Fastidios,
Matthew Bourne,
Main Source,
Kerrie Biddell,
Rites of Spring,
Animal Collective,
Donny Hathaway,
Pantytec,
Moby Grape,
JFA,
The Martian,
Quadrant,
Blake Baxter,
Wasted Youth,
The Mummies,
Juan Atkins,
Iggy Pop,
Pussy Galore,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Throbbing Gristle,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Standells,
Cymande,
Bill Wells,
Nils Olav,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Kool Moe Dee,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Glenn Branca,
Niagra,
Scientists,
Warren Ellis,
Radio Birdman,
Nico,
Scion,
Skarface,
Surgeon,
Barrington Levy,
Schoolly D,
The Count Five,
Cameo,
The Stooges,
The Gladiators,
The Smiths,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.