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 Maldives and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Marc Almond to the grime 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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Bar-Kays,
Crispy Ambulance,
Roxette,
10cc,
Pantaleimon,
Ossler,
David Axelrod,
Hashim,
Flash Fearless,
Ituana,
Scott Walker,
The Beau Brummels,
Grandmaster Flash,
Lebanon Hanover,
Godley & Creme,
MDC,
Steve Hackett,
The Flesh Eaters,
The New Christs,
Soul II Soul,
Delon & Dalcan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Cheater Slicks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Harmonia,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Jandek,
Yaz,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
John Foxx,
Supertramp,
Sight & Sound,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Black Bananas,
Fatback Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Cramps,
The Cure,
June Days,
X-101,
Dead Boys,
Fear,
Dual Sessions,
Davy DMX,
Todd Terry,
Pylon,
Ronnie Foster,
FM Einheit,
A Certain Ratio,
MC5,
Eric Copeland,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Max Romeo,
Popol Vuh,
Sonic Youth,
Pantytec,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Knickerbockers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Niagra,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
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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.