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 Paraguay and from London.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Eddi Front to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 China Crisis. All the underground hits.
All The Evens tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every James White and The Blacks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an organ and an arpeggiator 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 marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Eurythmics,
Joensuu 1685,
Agitation Free,
Smog,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Human League,
John Lydon,
Anakelly,
Ultra Naté,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Heaven 17,
Fugazi,
Grey Daturas,
Alison Limerick,
The Trojans,
Barry Ungar,
Alton Ellis,
Rapeman,
Black Flag,
Sixth Finger,
Danielle Patucci,
Minutemen,
Television,
Thee Headcoats,
Groovy Waters,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Circle Jerks,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Negative Approach,
Drexciya,
Tommy Roe,
Model 500,
Pussy Galore,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Cramps,
Kevin Saunderson,
The American Breed,
the Bar-Kays,
Al Stewart,
Eddi Front,
David McCallum,
Black Moon,
X-101,
Stiv Bators,
Max Romeo,
The United States of America,
Donald Byrd,
Bad Manners,
Sonic Youth,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Mantronix,
Alphaville,
Ice-T,
Angry Samoans,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Arthur Verocai,
Altered Images,
Liliput,
Faust,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Bang On A Can,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.