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 Swaziland and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1960 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Sister Nancy to the crunk 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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Normal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Frankie Knuckles,
Nico,
Ohio Players,
Television Personalities,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Excepter,
Arcadia,
The Seeds,
The Dave Clark Five,
Radiopuhelimet,
kango's stein massive,
Motorama,
Groovy Waters,
Albert Ayler,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Symarip,
Nils Olav,
The J.B.'s,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Godley & Creme,
Hardrive,
Todd Rundgren,
Fat Boys,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Residents,
The Leaves,
The Invisible,
The Smoke,
The Cowsills,
John Coltrane,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Shuggie Otis,
Dead Boys,
Johnny Osbourne,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Black Moon,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Bill Near,
Idris Muhammad,
The Searchers,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Mark Hollis,
Ronnie Foster,
Aaron Thompson,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Victims,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Five Americans,
Barrington Levy,
The Cramps,
Hoover,
Q and Not U,
Y Pants,
Negative Approach,
The Neon Judgement,
Sly & The Family Stone,
John Lydon,
Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones, Howard Jones.
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.