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 Ivory Coast and from Milan.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 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 Camberwell Now to the rap kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Move. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
Boz Scaggs,
John Holt,
Eurythmics,
Junior Murvin,
The Skatalites,
Connie Case,
Little Man,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Lindisfarne,
Moebius,
T.S.O.L.,
Roger Hodgson,
Q65,
The Gun Club,
Fatback Band,
Radiohead,
Lucky Dragons,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Rhythm & Sound,
Camberwell Now,
Grandmaster Flash,
Metal Thangz,
Bronski Beat,
Avey Tare,
Henry Cow,
Steve Hackett,
Saccharine Trust,
The Techniques,
Section 25,
Scott Walker,
Freddie Wadling,
Sound Behaviour,
The Index,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Goldenarms,
Bad Manners,
Talk Talk,
Barclay James Harvest,
Eden Ahbez,
Laurel Aitken,
Massinfluence,
Ronan,
Todd Rundgren,
Banda Bassotti,
The Divine Comedy,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Inner City,
Gang Green,
Icehouse,
The Buckinghams,
Delta 5,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Reuben Wilson,
Adolescents,
Rotary Connection,
June of 44,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.