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 Korea North and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 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 Stereo Dub to the rock 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 Mad Mike. All the underground hits.
All Scott Walker + Sunn O))) tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gong record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Niagra,
Accadde A,
David McCallum,
Chris & Cosey,
Nico,
Jesper Dahlback,
Hashim,
R.M.O.,
Bronski Beat,
Soft Machine,
Isaac Hayes,
Ice-T,
Funky Four + One,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Slave,
Au Pairs,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Freddie Wadling,
Crispian St. Peters,
Man Eating Sloth,
Scott Walker,
Nils Olav,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Warren Ellis,
Arthur Verocai,
the Slits,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Angels of Light,
Neu!,
Jerry's Kids,
Das Ding,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Music Machine,
Zero Boys,
The Trojans,
Angry Samoans,
Stereo Dub,
The Standells,
The Neon Judgement,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lakeside,
Bluetip,
Boredoms,
OOIOO,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Man Parrish,
The New Christs,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Duran Duran,
Althea and Donna,
The Fall,
Sound Behaviour,
Panda Bear,
Fatback Band,
Severed Heads,
K-Klass,
Leonard Cohen,
Qualms,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.