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 San Marino and from Sao Paulo.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 snare 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 David McCallum to the rap 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 Eric Dolphy. All the underground hits.
All Clear Light tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Can record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
LL Cool J,
Nation of Ulysses,
Boz Scaggs,
Qualms,
Kas Product,
The Slits,
The Happenings,
The United States of America,
David Bowie,
The Young Rascals,
Clear Light,
Avey Tare,
Bad Manners,
Isaac Hayes,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cecil Taylor,
Chris & Cosey,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
F. McDonald,
The Real Kids,
Nirvana,
Joyce Sims,
UT,
Roxy Music,
Marc Almond,
Ronan,
The Star Department,
Lower 48,
Yazoo,
kango's stein massive,
Crispy Ambulance,
Shoche,
Kerrie Biddell,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Barracudas,
Bobby Sherman,
Amon Düül II,
The Selecter,
U.S. Maple,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Steve Hackett,
Vladislav Delay,
Niagra,
Yaz,
Moebius,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Moody Blues,
Half Japanese,
Soul Sonic Force,
Severed Heads,
The Vogues,
Simply Red,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Cameo,
Jeff Lynne,
the Normal,
Unwound,
Khruangbin,
Joey Negro,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Jesus and Mary Chain.
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.