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 Georgia and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 harpsichord 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 Fugs to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Kinks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Thompson Twins,
Maurizio,
Leonard Cohen,
Simply Red,
Slave,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Yazoo,
Dave Gahan,
Danielle Patucci,
Reuben Wilson,
The Invisible,
Carl Craig,
Basic Channel,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Fat Boys,
Bad Manners,
Yusef Lateef,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Gregory Isaacs,
Bill Near,
Smog,
The Real Kids,
The Walker Brothers,
The Red Krayola,
The Happenings,
Harry Pussy,
UT,
Donny Hathaway,
Rosa Yemen,
Cymande,
Sandy B,
Kaleidoscope,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Pretty Things,
Sällskapet,
Sight & Sound,
Liliput,
Organ,
Masters at Work,
The Saints,
E-Dancer,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Trumans Water,
Public Image Ltd.,
DJ Style,
Intrusion,
The Barracudas,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Deadbeat,
Wally Richardson,
Guru Guru,
Piero Umiliani,
Drexciya,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Johnny Osbourne,
Desert Stars,
Minny Pops,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Birthday Party,
The Trojans,
Minor Threat,
Rod Modell,
The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs, The Fugs.
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.