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 Algeria and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 snare 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 The Electric Prunes to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 June Days. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott Heron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cure record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalo Schifrin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
In Retrospect,
Swell Maps,
Gang Gang Dance,
a-ha,
Television Personalities,
Tres Demented,
Janne Schatter,
Prince Buster,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Schoolly D,
Index,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Rapeman,
Derrick May,
Masters at Work,
The Durutti Column,
Sarah Menescal,
Lalo Schifrin,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Maleditus Sound,
The Motions,
8 Eyed Spy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Black Bananas,
Circle Jerks,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gabor Szabo,
T. Rex,
Camberwell Now,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Connie Case,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Searchers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Quadrant,
Model 500,
the Soft Cell,
Rod Modell,
The Doobie Brothers,
Scion,
Jawbox,
Skaos,
Soul II Soul,
Con Funk Shun,
Eve St. Jones,
Blake Baxter,
The Black Dice,
Unwound,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Royal Trux,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
FM Einheit,
Youth Brigade,
Spoonie Gee,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Oblivians,
the Human League,
The American Breed,
Pussy Galore,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.