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 Botswana and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 theremin 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 Aloha Tigers to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke 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 snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gregory Isaacs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Spandau Ballet,
Soul II Soul,
Ultimate Spinach,
Joe Finger,
Skarface,
Wally Richardson,
Schoolly D,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Sun Ra,
Silicon Teens,
Half Japanese,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Royal Trux,
Faust,
John Foxx,
The Leaves,
Ossler,
Subhumans,
Howard Jones,
Sun City Girls,
Stereo Dub,
Sixth Finger,
Mary Jane Girls,
Index,
Popol Vuh,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Young Rascals,
Echospace,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Names,
Morten Harket,
MC5,
Tomorrow,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Fire Engines,
Fad Gadget,
Kevin Saunderson,
Desert Stars,
Jacques Brel,
Barry Ungar,
Rufus Thomas,
Warsaw,
Camouflage,
Kerri Chandler,
In Retrospect,
Swell Maps,
Supertramp,
The Pretty Things,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Davy DMX,
Sister Nancy,
New York Dolls,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Neil Young,
Hashim,
Suburban Knight,
The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters, The Toasters.
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.