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 Barbados and from Shanghai.
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 1965 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Milan.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 H. Thieme to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Mars. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Offenders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
The Knickerbockers,
Iggy Pop,
Dawn Penn,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pierre Henry,
Public Image Ltd.,
Infiniti,
The New Christs,
Camberwell Now,
The Busters,
Sugar Minott,
Jesper Dahlback,
Royal Trux,
Deepchord,
Archie Shepp,
The Stooges,
Second Layer,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Standells,
Colin Newman,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Anthony Braxton,
Fad Gadget,
Lalo Schifrin,
Yazoo,
Radiohead,
Ponytail,
Roy Ayers,
David Axelrod,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Pop Group,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Angry Samoans,
Shuggie Otis,
Wasted Youth,
Outsiders,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Urselle,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Mojo Men,
X-102,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Grass Roots,
The Cramps,
Glenn Branca,
Magazine,
David Bowie,
The Human League,
Goldenarms,
Slave,
Boz Scaggs,
Panda Bear,
Funky Four + One,
Rites of Spring,
Quadrant,
Oblivians,
the Slits,
Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young, Neil Young.
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.