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 Finland and from Paris.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Stiv Bators to the grunge 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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers Ubiquity tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lafayette Afro Rock Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eddi Front,
Depeche Mode,
Infiniti,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Gong,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
T. Rex,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
JFA,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Hoover,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Offenders,
Adolescents,
Oblivians,
Country Joe & The Fish,
cv313,
The Pretty Things,
Parry Music,
Suicide,
Skarface,
Liliput,
Pere Ubu,
Sandy B,
Matthew Halsall,
The Searchers,
La Düsseldorf,
Unwound,
Index,
Niagra,
Minny Pops,
Wings,
Radiohead,
Camberwell Now,
Nick Fraelich,
Fear,
Khruangbin,
Yellowson,
Pantytec,
Avey Tare,
Stetsasonic,
K-Klass,
Steve Hackett,
Crime,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Make Up,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sonny Sharrock,
Robert Wyatt,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Sonics,
Skaos,
Jandek,
Glenn Branca,
Intrusion,
The Cowsills,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Hardrive,
Massinfluence,
Von Mondo,
Rufus Thomas,
Scientists,
Nas,
Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach, Ultimate Spinach.
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.