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 Nicaragua and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic 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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 chamberlin 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 Liliput to the punk 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 Gil Scott Heron. All the underground hits.
All The Pretty Things tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tommy Roe,
the Bar-Kays,
Iggy Pop,
The Young Rascals,
Nik Kershaw,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Absolute Body Control,
Fluxion,
Bill Wells,
Kool Moe Dee,
Aural Exciters,
Zapp,
The Blues Magoos,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Thee Headcoats,
The Five Americans,
Erykah Badu,
Cal Tjader,
Andrew Hill,
E-Dancer,
DJ Sneak,
The Leaves,
Young Marble Giants,
Peter and Kerry,
Henry Cow,
Cybotron,
Model 500,
Pussy Galore,
The Evens,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
T.S.O.L.,
Sex Pistols,
Radiohead,
Curtis Mayfield,
Barry Ungar,
Eric Copeland,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Heaven 17,
The Cure,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
John Lydon,
Scientists,
Quadrant,
Blossom Toes,
The New Christs,
Mad Mike,
Rapeman,
L. Decosne,
Lalo Schifrin,
Audionom,
Subhumans,
The Count Five,
Spandau Ballet,
Byron Stingily,
The Pop Group,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Mandrill,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
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.