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 Ethiopia and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Wire show in Watford.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Eli Mardock to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Technova record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Animal Collective record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Hasil Adkins,
Nico,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Tomorrow,
Rapeman,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Brand Nubian,
Los Fastidios,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Robert Wyatt,
The United States of America,
Subhumans,
The Remains,
Joy Division,
Young Marble Giants,
Absolute Body Control,
Hoover,
Johnny Clarke,
Gang of Four,
Dual Sessions,
Gichy Dan,
Roxette,
Frankie Knuckles,
Anakelly,
Archie Shepp,
Marine Girls,
Quando Quango,
Fugazi,
Heaven 17,
Henry Cow,
Scott Walker,
Deadbeat,
Liliput,
Fluxion,
Marshall Jefferson,
Pantaleimon,
Neil Young,
Harry Pussy,
Royal Trux,
Prince Buster,
The Sound,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Malaria!,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
John Foxx,
Skarface,
The Mojo Men,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lower 48,
Sonic Youth,
Monks,
Magma,
Flipper,
Ludus,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Q and Not U,
Brass Construction,
Bobby Womack,
Guru Guru,
Jeff Lynne,
The Moleskins,
Average White Band,
Sparks,
The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light, The Angels of Light.
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.