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 Peru and from Woodstock.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Anakelly. All the underground hits.
All Quadrant tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music 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 guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas 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?
The Tremeloes,
The Dead C,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Crime,
The Dave Clark Five,
Moby Grape,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Rufus Thomas,
The Stooges,
The Durutti Column,
Flash Fearless,
Quantec,
Chrome,
Hashim,
Skarface,
Agent Orange,
Rod Modell,
Mars,
Janne Schatter,
The Doors,
Scratch Acid,
Charles Mingus,
Erasure,
The Slits,
Rites of Spring,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Yazoo,
Gang of Four,
The Doobie Brothers,
Section 25,
Boogie Down Productions,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Names,
David Bowie,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Cure,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Minnie Riperton,
Maurizio,
Godley & Creme,
Procol Harum,
Buzzcocks,
Gong,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pet Shop Boys,
Los Fastidios,
Lee Hazlewood,
Cluster,
Faust,
The Move,
Unrelated Segments,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Kinks,
Spoonie Gee,
Matthew Bourne,
Soul II Soul,
Connie Case,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
D'Angelo,
Minutemen,
Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts, Sunsets and Hearts.
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.