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 Costa Rica and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Taipei.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Quando Quango to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Rites of Spring. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 marimba and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Barclay James Harvest,
Crooked Eye,
Jacques Brel,
The Happenings,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Outsiders,
The Toasters,
Adolescents,
Theoretical Girls,
Jeff Mills,
Skaos,
DNA,
Porter Ricks,
The Velvet Underground,
Monolake,
Rotary Connection,
Cal Tjader,
David Bowie,
Barbara Tucker,
Crash Course in Science,
David McCallum,
Cheater Slicks,
Symarip,
Gastr Del Sol,
Swans,
Groovy Waters,
Mantronix,
Marvin Gaye,
CMW,
The Birthday Party,
Gichy Dan,
The Martian,
Godley & Creme,
Accadde A,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Walker Brothers,
Blancmange,
Wally Richardson,
John Lydon,
World's Most,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Bob Dylan,
Roxy Music,
X-101,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Chris Corsano,
The Dead C,
Soulsonic Force,
the Swans,
Swell Maps,
Vainqueur,
Andrew Hill,
Blake Baxter,
Jeff Lynne,
Danielle Patucci,
Unrelated Segments,
Anakelly,
Depeche Mode,
The Young Rascals,
Boz Scaggs,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.