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 Haiti and from Portland.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 organ 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 Young Marble Giants to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Henry Cow record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fortunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Eric Copeland,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Marc Almond,
Banda Bassotti,
Delta 5,
Accadde A,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Stetsasonic,
This Heat,
Aural Exciters,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Saccharine Trust,
June of 44,
Eric Dolphy,
Whodini,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Buzzcocks,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Depeche Mode,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Joe Smooth,
Infiniti,
Kurtis Blow,
Sound Behaviour,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Tres Demented,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Urselle,
Michelle Simonal,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Eddi Front,
Monks,
Derrick Morgan,
Blake Baxter,
H. Thieme,
Intrusion,
Aswad,
Jeff Lynne,
The Slackers,
Soft Cell,
Nik Kershaw,
The Happenings,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Don Cherry,
Mantronix,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
the Human League,
Godley & Creme,
Funkadelic,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The American Breed,
ABBA,
Neu!,
Chris Corsano,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Knickerbockers,
Camberwell Now,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Albert Ayler,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Echospace, Echospace, Echospace, Echospace.
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.