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 Egypt and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Bronski Beat to the dance 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 Sonic Youth. All the underground hits.
All Amon Düül II tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Al Stewart record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Half Japanese,
Susan Cadogan,
Sonny Sharrock,
Section 25,
The Divine Comedy,
Leonard Cohen,
Sällskapet,
The Evens,
The Grass Roots,
CMW,
The American Breed,
Amazonics,
Bad Manners,
Dead Boys,
Ultravox,
The Durutti Column,
Massinfluence,
Wally Richardson,
Nas,
Quantec,
Pagans,
Schoolly D,
Flipper,
cv313,
Alphaville,
The Walker Brothers,
Jawbox,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Clear Light,
T. Rex,
The Angels of Light,
The Detroit Cobras,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Y Pants,
Little Man,
The Doors,
Sixth Finger,
Black Flag,
China Crisis,
The Happenings,
Average White Band,
Au Pairs,
The Pop Group,
R.M.O.,
Cameo,
Zero Boys,
The Cure,
Jandek,
The Saints,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Todd Terry,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Television Personalities,
K-Klass,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Victims,
Magazine,
Chris Corsano,
The Buckinghams,
The Birthday Party,
Banda Bassotti,
Cheater Slicks,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.