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 Italy and from Bremen.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 Bang On A Can to the jazz 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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Blossom Toes 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stiv Bators record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
The Cosmic Jokers,
New Age Steppers,
Erasure,
Alison Limerick,
The Last Poets,
Kerri Chandler,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
One Last Wish,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Janne Schatter,
The Dead C,
Flash Fearless,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Tremeloes,
Schoolly D,
Matthew Bourne,
Smog,
Peter and Kerry,
The Vogues,
The Monochrome Set,
Freddie Wadling,
Monolake,
Toni Rubio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fuzztones,
Josef K,
Suicide,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Moody Blues,
Nation of Ulysses,
CMW,
The Young Rascals,
R.M.O.,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Scientists,
Easy Going,
Grandmaster Flash,
Harpers Bizarre,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jandek,
Funky Four + One,
L. Decosne,
Camberwell Now,
The Seeds,
Sonic Youth,
Ice-T,
Rites of Spring,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Michelle Simonal,
Kayak,
Brand Nubian,
Kas Product,
Subhumans,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Robert Wyatt,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Charles Mingus,
The Invisible,
Excepter,
Pierre Henry,
Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin, Junior Murvin.
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.