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 Switzerland and from Taipei.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 organ 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 One Last Wish to the disco 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 Soulsonic Force. All the underground hits.
All Camouflage tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Barbara Tucker,
Lucky Dragons,
Scrapy,
Wings,
Jandek,
MC5,
Girls At Our Best!,
Can,
Harmonia,
Bad Manners,
Cal Tjader,
Camouflage,
New Order,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Residents,
Rosa Yemen,
Bootsy Collins,
Lebanon Hanover,
Aural Exciters,
New Age Steppers,
Rekid,
These Immortal Souls,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Divine Comedy,
Ralphi Rosario,
Essential Logic,
Oneida,
The Detroit Cobras,
PIL,
Sun Ra,
Boredoms,
Bluetip,
Soft Machine,
Roy Ayers,
One Last Wish,
Soul Sonic Force,
Faust,
The Mojo Men,
Stetsasonic,
Pharoah Sanders,
Accadde A,
the Soft Cell,
Popol Vuh,
Half Japanese,
Davy DMX,
Deepchord,
John Coltrane,
The Electric Prunes,
Sound Behaviour,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Rotary Connection,
Kurtis Blow,
Rapeman,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
the Association,
Ornette Coleman,
Bush Tetras,
The Blues Magoos,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Cameo, Cameo, Cameo, Cameo.
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.