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 Palau and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Bauhaus to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Slick Rick. All the underground hits.
All Neil Young tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-102 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mark Hollis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Cheater Slicks,
Black Bananas,
The Buckinghams,
Mars,
Jandek,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Litter,
John Lydon,
Connie Case,
Bill Near,
Wire,
Section 25,
Nico,
Althea and Donna,
Brothers Johnson,
Agent Orange,
The Angels of Light,
Saccharine Trust,
Lungfish,
Arthur Verocai,
Sun City Girls,
Ludus,
Subhumans,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Scrapy,
D'Angelo,
Scientists,
Harry Pussy,
Robert Hood,
Steve Hackett,
the Sonics,
Brass Construction,
The Gap Band,
Hasil Adkins,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Malaria!,
Susan Cadogan,
MC5,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Zapp,
Juan Atkins,
Excepter,
Boredoms,
Archie Shepp,
Quando Quango,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Dirtbombs,
Khruangbin,
Intrusion,
Schoolly D,
Jeru the Damaja,
Absolute Body Control,
Gichy Dan,
Tomorrow,
Amon Düül II,
10cc,
Tubeway Army,
Tom Boy,
Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes, Isaac Hayes.
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.