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 Senegal 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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the rock 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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Heavy D & The Boyz 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yaz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Swans,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ice-T,
The Walker Brothers,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Q and Not U,
The Cure,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
In Retrospect,
the Normal,
Eric Copeland,
Bobby Womack,
Sparks,
Grandmaster Flash,
Royal Trux,
Mantronix,
Rapeman,
The Litter,
Sound Behaviour,
The Cramps,
Whodini,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
cv313,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Depeche Mode,
10cc,
Excepter,
Kayak,
The Moleskins,
Gil Scott Heron,
Harry Pussy,
The Gap Band,
Mars,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Massinfluence,
Jawbox,
Pylon,
Lightning Bolt,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Babytalk,
Cluster,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Fugs,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Agitation Free,
Lou Reed,
Funky Four + One,
Peter & Gordon,
The Misunderstood,
The Music Machine,
Vainqueur,
The Sonics,
Gichy Dan,
Bill Wells,
Schoolly D,
Essential Logic,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes, Hot Snakes.
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.