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 Poland and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Tommy Roe to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Glambeats Corp. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Osbourne 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Icehouse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wally Richardson,
DJ Sneak,
Cybotron,
Jeru the Damaja,
Jerry's Kids,
Lou Reed,
Swans,
Radiopuhelimet,
Quadrant,
Jacques Brel,
Gichy Dan,
Jimmy McGriff,
Man Eating Sloth,
Brand Nubian,
Mark Hollis,
Technova,
Drexciya,
Althea and Donna,
Colin Newman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Supertramp,
Altered Images,
Morten Harket,
Babytalk,
Inner City,
Lebanon Hanover,
Excepter,
Marine Girls,
Sister Nancy,
the Soft Cell,
Sight & Sound,
Bizarre Inc.,
Quantec,
Aural Exciters,
Dawn Penn,
Black Bananas,
Minor Threat,
Livin' Joy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scan 7,
Charles Mingus,
The Slits,
Echospace,
Gil Scott Heron,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
LL Cool J,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tubeway Army,
Heaven 17,
The American Breed,
Black Moon,
Johnny Clarke,
The Gories,
Dead Boys,
Fugazi,
Unrelated Segments,
Oneida,
Ludus,
Todd Terry,
The Misunderstood,
Main Source,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.