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 Niger and from Toronto.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 synthesizer 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 Peter and Kerry to the jazz 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Whodini 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Grey Daturas,
Yazoo,
Peter & Gordon,
Wings,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Fire Engines,
Black Flag,
Panda Bear,
The Searchers,
Josef K,
Ken Boothe,
Throbbing Gristle,
Fluxion,
Marine Girls,
Radiopuhelimet,
Neu!,
La Düsseldorf,
The Barracudas,
The Names,
Amazonics,
Unrelated Segments,
The Gun Club,
the Human League,
the Slits,
Ice-T,
Index,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Soul Sonic Force,
Icehouse,
Chrome,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pierre Henry,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Godley & Creme,
Rufus Thomas,
Don Cherry,
Terry Callier,
A Certain Ratio,
EPMD,
Jerry Gold Smith,
a-ha,
Spandau Ballet,
Mission of Burma,
New Order,
John Lydon,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Detroit Cobras,
Nils Olav,
Man Parrish,
Bizarre Inc.,
Joyce Sims,
Laurel Aitken,
Kas Product,
Unwound,
Soft Machine,
Marshall Jefferson,
Minutemen,
Mantronix,
Fugazi,
Glenn Branca,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.