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 Germany and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 theremin 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 Eddi Front to the grunge 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 Scott Walker + Sunn O))). All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ludus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Nas,
Drive Like Jehu,
Skarface,
Jeff Mills,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Boogie Down Productions,
Nils Olav,
The Mojo Men,
Zero Boys,
The Monks,
Funkadelic,
Jawbox,
Juan Atkins,
The Cramps,
Ludus,
The Stooges,
Roger Hodgson,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lindisfarne,
Cheater Slicks,
Jeff Lynne,
The Red Krayola,
The Residents,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Archie Shepp,
Soulsonic Force,
the Germs,
Howard Jones,
Soul Sonic Force,
Traffic Nightmare,
Wasted Youth,
Scott Walker,
The Cowsills,
Guru Guru,
Pylon,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Metal Thangz,
Scrapy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Marine Girls,
The Martian,
World's Most,
Michelle Simonal,
Rapeman,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Slackers,
Model 500,
Section 25,
David Bowie,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Television Personalities,
Das Ding,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
B.T. Express,
Judy Mowatt,
10cc,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Buzzcocks,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music, Roxy Music.
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.