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 Zambia and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bremen.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Victims to the grunge 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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Don Cherry 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Harpers Bizarre,
Lebanon Hanover,
New Age Steppers,
the Slits,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sex Pistols,
Cameo,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Lyres,
World's Most,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Maurizio,
Piero Umiliani,
Eric Dolphy,
Nick Fraelich,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Standells,
Surgeon,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Gories,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Slits,
Unrelated Segments,
The Cowsills,
X-101,
Sarah Menescal,
Mark Hollis,
Peter and Kerry,
Angry Samoans,
Tres Demented,
AZ,
Ossler,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jerry's Kids,
Gerry Rafferty,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Amazonics,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Harmonia,
The Golliwogs,
Cybotron,
Jesper Dahlback,
Thompson Twins,
The Doobie Brothers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Nils Olav,
JFA,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Deakin,
Hashim,
Chrome,
Chris & Cosey,
The Mummies,
Whodini,
One Last Wish,
The Modern Lovers,
The Moody Blues,
Aaron Thompson,
Unwound,
Oneida,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.