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 Nicaragua and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Tom Boy to the crunk 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monochrome Set record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scan 7,
The Black Dice,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Smoke,
Sound Behaviour,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Iggy Pop,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Eric Dolphy,
Swans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Main Source,
Duran Duran,
Y Pants,
Kas Product,
U.S. Maple,
Electric Prunes,
The Knickerbockers,
E-Dancer,
Simply Red,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
X-101,
The Associates,
Alton Ellis,
Ituana,
Brand Nubian,
Jandek,
Minor Threat,
Roxy Music,
Ludus,
Brick,
Don Cherry,
David McCallum,
Minnie Riperton,
Yusef Lateef,
Alphaville,
La Düsseldorf,
Black Bananas,
Skaos,
Aswad,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Leaves,
Mantronix,
Bobby Womack,
Eve St. Jones,
PIL,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pussy Galore,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Judy Mowatt,
Siglo XX,
Moss Icon,
Grauzone,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Joyce Sims,
Scratch Acid,
The Fire Engines,
kango's stein massive,
Tom Boy,
John Holt,
Nick Fraelich,
Susan Cadogan,
Zapp, Zapp, Zapp, Zapp.
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.