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 Bahamas and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Fugazi to the techno 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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fad Gadget record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Litter,
Young Marble Giants,
Mandrill,
Avey Tare,
Colin Newman,
Duran Duran,
Bob Dylan,
The Slackers,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Darondo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Barry Ungar,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Monks,
Nirvana,
Derrick May,
Marvin Gaye,
Pussy Galore,
Moebius,
Matthew Bourne,
Bobby Womack,
Television,
New Age Steppers,
Juan Atkins,
Fluxion,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Motorama,
Jawbox,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The J.B.'s,
Radio Birdman,
Rapeman,
The Red Krayola,
La Düsseldorf,
the Soft Cell,
Mary Jane Girls,
Flamin' Groovies,
EPMD,
John Foxx,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
John Lydon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Boz Scaggs,
Minny Pops,
Subhumans,
Magma,
Crooked Eye,
Little Man,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Piero Umiliani,
Derrick Morgan,
Peter & Gordon,
The Sonics,
The Dirtbombs,
Lee Hazlewood,
Joensuu 1685,
Neil Young,
Crispian St. Peters,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
MC5,
Franke, Franke, Franke, Franke.
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.