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 Bahamas and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 clarinet 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the rock 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 Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam. All the underground hits.
All It's A Beautiful Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Main Source,
The Smoke,
Nik Kershaw,
K-Klass,
Qualms,
Delta 5,
The Divine Comedy,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Birthday Party,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bobby Womack,
Johnny Clarke,
Gong,
Fela Kuti,
The Litter,
The Walker Brothers,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Fire Engines,
Marine Girls,
The Associates,
Talk Talk,
Marvin Gaye,
a-ha,
The Gladiators,
Kas Product,
Crispian St. Peters,
Funkadelic,
The Five Americans,
Bobby Hutcherson,
10cc,
Cal Tjader,
Lalo Schifrin,
Wasted Youth,
Sällskapet,
Peter and Kerry,
Basic Channel,
Babytalk,
Unwound,
Theoretical Girls,
Mary Jane Girls,
Dennis Brown,
Oblivians,
Jandek,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Rites of Spring,
Lou Reed,
Wolf Eyes,
EPMD,
Wings,
Electric Prunes,
The Cramps,
Lower 48,
Cheater Slicks,
Eric Copeland,
The Human League,
Sparks,
Stereo Dub,
Barrington Levy,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lakeside,
Fluxion,
Newcleus,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.