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 Russia and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Tom Verlaine 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 The Techniques to the electroclash 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 Monks. All the underground hits.
All Thee Headcoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Eddi Front,
Eric Dolphy,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Vainqueur,
Sonny Sharrock,
Television,
Roger Hodgson,
Bootsy Collins,
Unwound,
The Litter,
Jerry's Kids,
Hashim,
Popol Vuh,
Rosa Yemen,
Q and Not U,
Fatback Band,
Icehouse,
Cybotron,
Smog,
Bang On A Can,
Curtis Mayfield,
Intrusion,
Kas Product,
Monolake,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bad Manners,
Heaven 17,
Black Sheep,
Moebius,
The Monks,
Mission of Burma,
ABC,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Das Ding,
Kurtis Blow,
Sam Rivers,
Negative Approach,
Amon Düül II,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Ultravox,
Prince Buster,
Masters at Work,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sixth Finger,
Slave,
The Raincoats,
Quantec,
Faraquet,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Bobby Womack,
The Smoke,
Excepter,
The Fuzztones,
Ossler,
La Düsseldorf,
Shoche,
The Doobie Brothers,
Adolescents,
Gabor Szabo,
Andrew Hill,
KRS-One,
Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad, Idris Muhammad.
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.