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 Vanuatu and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 organ 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 The Slackers to the dance 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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Radio Birdman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mission of Burma record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
Technova,
Laurel Aitken,
Gabor Szabo,
Joe Smooth,
Animal Collective,
The Litter,
Subhumans,
The Invisible,
Kas Product,
The J.B.'s,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Kinks,
Roy Ayers,
Newcleus,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Gang Starr,
Groovy Waters,
Camberwell Now,
Eve St. Jones,
Deakin,
Flamin' Groovies,
Simply Red,
The Fugs,
The Slackers,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Monks,
Visage,
Bobby Womack,
Soft Cell,
Glenn Branca,
Albert Ayler,
The Smiths,
Blake Baxter,
Nas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tim Buckley,
Kurtis Blow,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
World's Most,
Zapp,
Aaron Thompson,
The Red Krayola,
La Düsseldorf,
Prince Buster,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Spoonie Gee,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Freddie Wadling,
Surgeon,
Echospace,
Smog,
Eric Copeland,
Sister Nancy,
The Shadows of Knight,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Fuzztones,
Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango, Quando Quango.
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.