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 Serbia and from Mexico City.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Manila.
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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the punk 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 Seeds. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joy Division 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roger Hodgson,
Alton Ellis,
La Düsseldorf,
Marcia Griffiths,
Adolescents,
Warren Ellis,
Amazonics,
Aloha Tigers,
June Days,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sex Pistols,
the Association,
The Raincoats,
The Red Krayola,
Arcadia,
Skaos,
Jacob Miller,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Nick Fraelich,
Essential Logic,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Fugazi,
This Heat,
The Doors,
Swans,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Buckinghams,
Basic Channel,
Danielle Patucci,
The Walker Brothers,
Royal Trux,
The Alarm Clocks,
Scan 7,
Sarah Menescal,
Henry Cow,
Ronnie Foster,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
K-Klass,
The Velvet Underground,
Little Man,
Young Marble Giants,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Slick Rick,
Eddi Front,
David Bowie,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Knickerbockers,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Soul II Soul,
Franke,
Lightning Bolt,
The Black Dice,
Lou Reed,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
a-ha,
Sun City Girls,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jerry's Kids,
UT,
Von Mondo,
Yusef Lateef,
Glambeats Corp.,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.