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 Bahrain and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 David Bowie 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 Lou Reed & John Cale to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Joy Division. All the underground hits.
All Barclay James Harvest tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a AZ record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Cosmic Jokers,
Yellowson,
The Last Poets,
Jacob Miller,
MC5,
Eve St. Jones,
Angry Samoans,
The Stooges,
Josef K,
The Skatalites,
Marshall Jefferson,
R.M.O.,
These Immortal Souls,
the Swans,
the Sonics,
Pharoah Sanders,
Terrestrial Tones,
Darondo,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Lalann,
Stereo Dub,
Au Pairs,
Quando Quango,
Hashim,
Amon Düül,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
K-Klass,
Masters at Work,
The Mojo Men,
Bill Wells,
June of 44,
Aswad,
Main Source,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Blake Baxter,
Bluetip,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Hoover,
John Foxx,
Cal Tjader,
Unwound,
Public Enemy,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Swans,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Neil Young,
Minor Threat,
Radiohead,
Panda Bear,
Flamin' Groovies,
Soft Cell,
David McCallum,
The Toasters,
Erasure,
Minutemen,
Amazonics,
Lungfish,
The Fugs,
Scan 7,
Echospace,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Henry Cow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.