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 Ireland and from Copenhagen.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Lou Reed 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 Throbbing Gristle to the dance 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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Gang Starr tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nik Kershaw record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MC5,
Yusef Lateef,
Glambeats Corp.,
Stockholm Monsters,
Severed Heads,
John Lydon,
Girls At Our Best!,
Frankie Knuckles,
Ultra Naté,
Ten City,
Cecil Taylor,
June Days,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Urselle,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Aloha Tigers,
The Count Five,
Mission of Burma,
Bootsy Collins,
Rakim,
Bauhaus,
Pulsallama,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sugar Minott,
Bad Manners,
Trumans Water,
The Index,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Echospace,
Dual Sessions,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Blossom Toes,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Monolake,
Sparks,
Absolute Body Control,
Nirvana,
The Selecter,
Liliput,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Harry Pussy,
Motorama,
Minutemen,
Ornette Coleman,
Public Enemy,
PIL,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Boogie Down Productions,
Unwound,
Flipper,
KRS-One,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Qualms,
Eric Copeland,
Robert Wyatt,
Henry Cow,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Star Department,
Big Daddy Kane,
Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter, Janne Schatter.
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.