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 Liechtenstein and from Copenhagen.
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 Spokane and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 organ 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 The Happenings to the techno kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Slave. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wire,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marmalade,
The Five Americans,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Howard Jones,
Delon & Dalcan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Lyres,
Tim Buckley,
The Standells,
The Names,
John Lydon,
Eric Dolphy,
Soulsonic Force,
Von Mondo,
Althea and Donna,
The United States of America,
Swans,
Eddi Front,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Barracudas,
Cecil Taylor,
Lindisfarne,
Vainqueur,
Harmonia,
Black Sheep,
The Cowsills,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Mojo Men,
Janne Schatter,
Johnny Clarke,
Quadrant,
Cluster,
David Bowie,
The Associates,
Funky Four + One,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Human League,
Urselle,
Cheater Slicks,
Kerrie Biddell,
Slick Rick,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Stetsasonic,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Morten Harket,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
A Certain Ratio,
Bang On A Can,
Black Bananas,
The Sonics,
B.T. Express,
Moebius,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Depeche Mode,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Mars,
Eric B and Rakim,
Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division, Joy Division.
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.