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 Swaziland and from Jakarta.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Kool G Rap & DJ Polo 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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Jeru the Damaja tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minny Pops record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tropical Tobacco,
Joy Division,
The Fugs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Soft Cell,
Terry Callier,
Connie Case,
The Real Kids,
Pantaleimon,
Fear,
The Invisible,
Ten City,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Kaleidoscope,
Neil Young,
Max Romeo,
Fort Wilson Riot,
KRS-One,
Jacques Brel,
OOIOO,
The Motions,
Sonic Youth,
Wings,
The Young Rascals,
Lyres,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Brand Nubian,
Roger Hodgson,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Lou Reed,
The Barracudas,
Jerry's Kids,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Barclay James Harvest,
Alison Limerick,
Banda Bassotti,
Jesper Dahlback,
Chris & Cosey,
Section 25,
Letta Mbulu,
Siglo XX,
Ultra Naté,
Chris Corsano,
Scion,
Drexciya,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Doobie Brothers,
Cymande,
Porter Ricks,
Lucky Dragons,
UT,
Ponytail,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Jeru the Damaja,
A Certain Ratio,
Lalo Schifrin,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Leonard Cohen,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap 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.