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 Austria and from Woodstock.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Throbbing Gristle to the punk 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 Robert Wyatt. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lightning Bolt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camouflage,
Qualms,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Panda Bear,
ABBA,
Lyres,
Monks,
Colin Newman,
Underground Resistance,
Black Flag,
Tim Buckley,
The Star Department,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Tres Demented,
Alison Limerick,
Drive Like Jehu,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Stooges,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Black Pus,
Lalo Schifrin,
Max Romeo,
The Motions,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Half Japanese,
the Sonics,
One Last Wish,
Agitation Free,
The Smiths,
Easy Going,
Suicide,
Dark Day,
Moss Icon,
The Misunderstood,
Sight & Sound,
Jimmy McGriff,
E-Dancer,
The Doobie Brothers,
Camberwell Now,
Buzzcocks,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Terrestrial Tones,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Duran Duran,
MC5,
Warren Ellis,
the Germs,
Nico,
Y Pants,
K-Klass,
The Mummies,
the Normal,
Interpol,
The Associates,
Stiv Bators,
Maleditus Sound,
The Cowsills,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Moleskins,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.