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 Costa Rica and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Joy Division to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Newcleus. All the underground hits.
All Newcleus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warsaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tom Boy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
The Pretty Things,
Laurel Aitken,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rosa Yemen,
Pylon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Kaleidoscope,
Rod Modell,
Soulsonic Force,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Victims,
Joyce Sims,
Funkadelic,
Lucky Dragons,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Porter Ricks,
Panda Bear,
The Grass Roots,
R.M.O.,
Moss Icon,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Malaria!,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Delon & Dalcan,
Hardrive,
Anthony Braxton,
The Tremeloes,
Das Ding,
John Coltrane,
Urselle,
Yaz,
Unrelated Segments,
Sexual Harrassment,
Franke,
Harry Pussy,
Thee Headcoats,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pet Shop Boys,
Babytalk,
China Crisis,
Bronski Beat,
Dawn Penn,
The Last Poets,
Barrington Levy,
Faust,
Stereo Dub,
ABBA,
Todd Rundgren,
Bobby Sherman,
Bob Dylan,
Nirvana,
Roger Hodgson,
Derrick Morgan,
Organ,
Blancmange,
Scion,
Warren Ellis,
Can,
Blossom Toes,
Gerry Rafferty,
kango's stein massive,
The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers, The Modern Lovers.
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.