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 Israel and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 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 Suicide to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Sisters of Mercy 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Von Mondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Audionom,
Main Source,
Vainqueur,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Wally Richardson,
The Birthday Party,
Josef K,
La Düsseldorf,
Andrew Hill,
Shoche,
Thompson Twins,
New Order,
Grandmaster Flash,
Unwound,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Y Pants,
Can,
Donald Byrd,
Warsaw,
Echospace,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Deakin,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Human League,
Cluster,
The Trojans,
The Associates,
The Skatalites,
Roy Ayers,
Donny Hathaway,
Scientists,
Juan Atkins,
Rakim,
Minnie Riperton,
Surgeon,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
James White and The Blacks,
Sarah Menescal,
Half Japanese,
Marvin Gaye,
Carl Craig,
Youth Brigade,
Swell Maps,
The Cowsills,
The Saints,
Bill Near,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Gories,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Television,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Maleditus Sound,
Pierre Henry,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Crispian St. Peters,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks, Circle Jerks.
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.