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 Georgia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 Eurythmics to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Los Fastidios,
Sonic Youth,
Drexciya,
Hashim,
The Remains,
Joe Smooth,
Liliput,
Darondo,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Girls At Our Best!,
Tomorrow,
Rufus Thomas,
Nirvana,
Sound Behaviour,
Gastr Del Sol,
Flamin' Groovies,
Eric Dolphy,
FM Einheit,
Marmalade,
Duran Duran,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Seeds,
The Leaves,
Cymande,
Scion,
Patti Smith,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Panda Bear,
Mo-Dettes,
Glenn Branca,
Bizarre Inc.,
Neu!,
Joe Finger,
John Holt,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
a-ha,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Trumans Water,
Joey Negro,
Juan Atkins,
MDC,
La Düsseldorf,
Eric Copeland,
Alice Coltrane,
The Techniques,
Mary Jane Girls,
Essential Logic,
Joyce Sims,
Minny Pops,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Cheater Slicks,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Wasted Youth,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Warren Ellis,
These Immortal Souls,
Agitation Free,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.