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 Bolivia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Invisible. All the underground hits.
All Traffic Nightmare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hot Snakes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Marshall Jefferson,
Deepchord,
Unwound,
Harry Pussy,
Scrapy,
Amon Düül II,
Television,
Youth Brigade,
Gabor Szabo,
Gastr Del Sol,
Soft Machine,
Scion,
Eric Copeland,
Sonic Youth,
Boogie Down Productions,
Siglo XX,
Kaleidoscope,
Oneida,
Stiv Bators,
Albert Ayler,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Josef K,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Joe Finger,
EPMD,
Mandrill,
Grey Daturas,
Kas Product,
the Human League,
Massinfluence,
Lower 48,
DNA,
Al Stewart,
Deadbeat,
Kerri Chandler,
Crispian St. Peters,
Drexciya,
Surgeon,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Young Rascals,
Toni Rubio,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Electric Prunes,
Aloha Tigers,
John Cale,
Sam Rivers,
Howard Jones,
Alison Limerick,
AZ,
The Moody Blues,
Hoover,
Simply Red,
Soul Sonic Force,
Monks,
The J.B.'s,
Lalo Schifrin,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.