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 Spain and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 arpeggiator 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 Leonard Cohen to the dance kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Warren Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mummies 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Basic Channel,
Essential Logic,
Nick Fraelich,
Moebius,
Drexciya,
Lower 48,
Thee Headcoats,
Zapp,
Youth Brigade,
The Associates,
Eddi Front,
Junior Murvin,
Piero Umiliani,
Sonic Youth,
The Fall,
Supertramp,
Cal Tjader,
Visage,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
T. Rex,
Fela Kuti,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Dead C,
Bang On A Can,
Bauhaus,
Cluster,
Brand Nubian,
Pantaleimon,
Susan Cadogan,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Black Pus,
Monolake,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Drive Like Jehu,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Electric Prunes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Kas Product,
Country Teasers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Nas,
Babytalk,
Half Japanese,
Quando Quango,
Surgeon,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Cameo,
Con Funk Shun,
Barclay James Harvest,
Robert Wyatt,
Trumans Water,
Jeff Mills,
Easy Going,
Sex Pistols,
New Order,
Warren Ellis,
The Raincoats,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Laurel Aitken,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Jacob Miller,
Mo-Dettes,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.