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 Bulgaria and from Paris.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Pulsallama to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Rosa Yemen. All the underground hits.
All Ludus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nils Olav record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord 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 Cramps,
the Sonics,
Crispy Ambulance,
Bizarre Inc.,
Dave Gahan,
Gang Green,
Gichy Dan,
Sam Rivers,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Eric Dolphy,
Television Personalities,
Soulsonic Force,
Wasted Youth,
Harmonia,
Eden Ahbez,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nik Kershaw,
Spandau Ballet,
Steve Hackett,
Agitation Free,
AZ,
Parry Music,
Grey Daturas,
Con Funk Shun,
Tim Buckley,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Remains,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lakeside,
The Cure,
Prince Buster,
The Cowsills,
Royal Trux,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Hot Snakes,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kurtis Blow,
Sister Nancy,
Matthew Bourne,
Tomorrow,
Max Romeo,
Charles Mingus,
Talk Talk,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Arcadia,
Peter and Kerry,
The Kinks,
Theoretical Girls,
Todd Terry,
Visage,
Moebius,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Junior Murvin,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Golliwogs,
Nirvana,
H. Thieme,
Blancmange,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
R.M.O.,
Deepchord,
The Martian, The Martian, The Martian, The Martian.
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.