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 Georgia and from Mumbai.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Gastr Del Sol to the punk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Roxy Music. All the underground hits.
All Radiohead tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Patti Smith 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Sherman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siglo XX,
Swell Maps,
Brand Nubian,
D'Angelo,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Victims,
The Mummies,
The United States of America,
Fad Gadget,
Technova,
cv313,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gil Scott Heron,
H. Thieme,
The Standells,
Glenn Branca,
Chris Corsano,
The Blackbyrds,
The Sound,
Ronan,
Qualms,
Bizarre Inc.,
Magazine,
DNA,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Stiv Bators,
Jesper Dahlback,
Anthony Braxton,
K-Klass,
Slave,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Funkadelic,
Cheater Slicks,
Jeru the Damaja,
Urselle,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Buzzcocks,
The Sonics,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Basic Channel,
E-Dancer,
Michelle Simonal,
Tomorrow,
Mo-Dettes,
Roy Ayers,
Deakin,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Fugs,
Aswad,
The Velvet Underground,
Scratch Acid,
The Fuzztones,
Donny Hathaway,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Accadde A,
Supertramp,
The Associates,
Arthur Verocai,
Q65,
The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible, The Invisible.
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.