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 Lebanon and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Lou Reed 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 Buzzcocks to the rock 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 The Remains. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kas Product record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultimate Spinach,
Bush Tetras,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barclay James Harvest,
Nik Kershaw,
Alton Ellis,
Moby Grape,
Motorama,
Eric B and Rakim,
Vladislav Delay,
Radiopuhelimet,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Idris Muhammad,
K-Klass,
Sällskapet,
Eli Mardock,
David McCallum,
The Slits,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Neon Judgement,
Matthew Halsall,
Chris & Cosey,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Organ,
Ralphi Rosario,
Donny Hathaway,
Soulsonic Force,
Crime,
New Age Steppers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Black Pus,
Althea and Donna,
Newcleus,
Funkadelic,
Ten City,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Prince Buster,
Warsaw,
Tommy Roe,
Talk Talk,
Joey Negro,
Sarah Menescal,
Joyce Sims,
the Normal,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Main Source,
Goldenarms,
Black Bananas,
Von Mondo,
Moebius,
Archie Shepp,
The Tremeloes,
Camouflage,
Porter Ricks,
Slick Rick,
Tim Buckley,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Brand Nubian,
Intrusion,
LL Cool J,
Absolute Body Control,
The Happenings,
Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians, Oblivians.
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.