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 Andorra and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 mellotron 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 Grauzone to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Shoche. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
The Vogues,
Faraquet,
Bronski Beat,
Freddie Wadling,
Schoolly D,
Procol Harum,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Prince Buster,
Section 25,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Loose Ends,
Electric Prunes,
Monks,
Essential Logic,
DJ Style,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Jandek,
Barbara Tucker,
Junior Murvin,
Shuggie Otis,
Harmonia,
Gang Starr,
Accadde A,
Crooked Eye,
Rotary Connection,
Alphaville,
Arcadia,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Nick Fraelich,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Index,
The Moody Blues,
Sonic Youth,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Neu!,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ohio Players,
The Velvet Underground,
Bush Tetras,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Fluxion,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Visage,
Mad Mike,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Sister Nancy,
the Germs,
D'Angelo,
Goldenarms,
Chris & Cosey,
Infiniti,
Audionom,
Jimmy McGriff,
Jeff Lynne,
Grauzone,
Talk Talk,
Public Image Ltd.,
Magma,
Jawbox,
Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B, Sandy B.
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.