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 United Kingdom and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 Calgary and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 A Certain Ratio to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 The Fugs. All the underground hits.
All Arthur Verocai tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Gories record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roxette record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
The Durutti Column,
Deepchord,
Freddie Wadling,
Organ,
Jacob Miller,
Johnny Osbourne,
Scott Walker,
The Skatalites,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Remains,
Scan 7,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Isaac Hayes,
Dual Sessions,
Junior Murvin,
Second Layer,
Mary Jane Girls,
MC5,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Underground Resistance,
The Misunderstood,
Cymande,
The Standells,
The Angels of Light,
Slave,
Dark Day,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Fuzztones,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ten City,
Country Teasers,
Camouflage,
Boredoms,
Amon Düül II,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Selecter,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Todd Rundgren,
Yazoo,
Radiohead,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Reuben Wilson,
The Sound,
X-102,
Fugazi,
Howard Jones,
Curtis Mayfield,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Wally Richardson,
Anakelly,
Prince Buster,
Buzzcocks,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Fatback Band,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bob Dylan,
Schoolly D,
John Foxx,
L. Decosne,
Japan,
Neu!,
Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu, Letta Mbulu.
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.