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 Monaco and from Stockholm.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Swans to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All John Coltrane tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Alison Limerick 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Teasers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Circle Jerks,
Monks,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Panda Bear,
Ossler,
Anakelly,
Joe Finger,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Colin Newman,
Michelle Simonal,
Wally Richardson,
The Leaves,
Hashim,
Smog,
The Litter,
MDC,
the Swans,
The Barracudas,
Godley & Creme,
Be Bop Deluxe,
kango's stein massive,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Second Layer,
Bobby Sherman,
Johnny Clarke,
Royal Trux,
R.M.O.,
Rekid,
Whodini,
Crime,
Pharoah Sanders,
Marc Almond,
Schoolly D,
Average White Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pantytec,
Goldenarms,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Blake Baxter,
Radiohead,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Yusef Lateef,
Iggy Pop,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Country Teasers,
The Beau Brummels,
The Residents,
Liliput,
Tears for Fears,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Smoke,
Fela Kuti,
Oneida,
Duran Duran,
Joyce Sims,
E-Dancer,
The Electric Prunes,
Main Source,
The Fortunes,
Soulsonic Force,
a-ha,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.