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 Egypt and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 guitar 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 Unwound to the crunk 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 Albert Ayler. All the underground hits.
All Todd Rundgren tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Circle Jerks,
Kerri Chandler,
Sixth Finger,
New York Dolls,
Deakin,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Wake,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ludus,
Funkadelic,
Kool Moe Dee,
Gabor Szabo,
Moebius,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Inner City,
Malaria!,
Joe Finger,
The Doors,
Yaz,
Minutemen,
Zapp,
The Divine Comedy,
Pantytec,
Terrestrial Tones,
Davy DMX,
The Golliwogs,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Yazoo,
Ronnie Foster,
Curtis Mayfield,
Althea and Donna,
Carl Craig,
Sam Rivers,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Bill Near,
Junior Murvin,
The Fuzztones,
Henry Cow,
Brothers Johnson,
Simply Red,
cv313,
Sight & Sound,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Buckinghams,
The United States of America,
Half Japanese,
The Electric Prunes,
The Knickerbockers,
Clear Light,
La Düsseldorf,
Scan 7,
Zero Boys,
Ten City,
Drexciya,
KRS-One,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Busters,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Bob Dylan,
Don Cherry,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.