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 Slovenia and from Manchester.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 snare 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 Television to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Malaria! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacob Miller record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arcadia,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Barracudas,
Unwound,
The Busters,
The Litter,
Banda Bassotti,
Rites of Spring,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Fortunes,
The Searchers,
Mr. Review,
The Zeros,
The Vogues,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Frankie Knuckles,
Soul II Soul,
Fad Gadget,
Dennis Brown,
Dead Boys,
Minutemen,
Donald Byrd,
Depeche Mode,
The Gun Club,
Ronnie Foster,
New York Dolls,
La Düsseldorf,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Man Parrish,
CMW,
Minny Pops,
The Fall,
Eric Copeland,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Leaves,
The Stooges,
World's Most,
Wings,
F. McDonald,
John Holt,
Vainqueur,
the Slits,
Patti Smith,
The Toasters,
Whodini,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Joy Division,
The Tremeloes,
Half Japanese,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Judy Mowatt,
John Lydon,
Qualms,
Aswad,
Charles Mingus,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Blues Magoos,
Jandek,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Desert Stars,
The Birthday Party,
Bobby Womack,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.