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 Peru and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 guitar 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 Kas Product to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Nils Olav tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain 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 sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dave Gahan,
The Barracudas,
Andrew Hill,
Curtis Mayfield,
Trumans Water,
Brick,
Marmalade,
The Buckinghams,
Grey Daturas,
The Searchers,
The Toasters,
The Motions,
Aural Exciters,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Skaos,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Interpol,
Kaleidoscope,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Thee Headcoats,
Tomorrow,
The Knickerbockers,
R.M.O.,
Lou Reed,
Lindisfarne,
Nirvana,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
the Fania All-Stars,
Ludus,
Magma,
Rites of Spring,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sixth Finger,
The Gap Band,
Ornette Coleman,
This Heat,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sun City Girls,
Slave,
Mo-Dettes,
Faraquet,
Gang of Four,
Nico,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sun Ra,
KRS-One,
James White and The Blacks,
The Cramps,
Nas,
Erykah Badu,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Smoke,
Iggy Pop,
A Flock of Seagulls,
H. Thieme,
Half Japanese,
Cameo,
Rotary Connection,
Erasure,
ABBA,
PIL,
Theoretical Girls,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.