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 Greece and from Lyon.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 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 Ultra Naté to the jazz 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 Yellowson. All the underground hits.
All Rakim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Electric Light Orchestra record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vaughan Mason & Crew record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
the Swans,
Wally Richardson,
Supertramp,
Das Ding,
the Normal,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Invisible,
The Black Dice,
The Doors,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Dave Clark Five,
Bobby Sherman,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Deakin,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Fela Kuti,
The Fuzztones,
Q and Not U,
Faust,
The Techniques,
John Holt,
Lindisfarne,
The Barracudas,
The Sound,
The Pretty Things,
The Martian,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ohio Players,
Minor Threat,
The Fire Engines,
The Trojans,
Letta Mbulu,
Mantronix,
Fluxion,
Leonard Cohen,
Frankie Knuckles,
Skarface,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Tomorrow,
DNA,
Young Marble Giants,
Lungfish,
L. Decosne,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Tubeway Army,
Jesper Dahlback,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Bootsy Collins,
Ronan,
Pole,
Alphaville,
Kas Product,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Brand Nubian,
The Leaves,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sparks,
LL Cool J,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
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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.