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 Marshall Islands and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 Glasgow and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Agitation Free to the electroclash 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 Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Scratch Acid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ralphi Rosario 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Easy Going record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Flash Fearless,
Minor Threat,
Sarah Menescal,
Dead Boys,
Panda Bear,
ABC,
Buzzcocks,
Eurythmics,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Brand Nubian,
Ossler,
Roxette,
The Star Department,
Slick Rick,
X-Ray Spex,
MC5,
FM Einheit,
Arcadia,
Barbara Tucker,
Aloha Tigers,
Shuggie Otis,
Yaz,
Wire,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Archie Shepp,
Tomorrow,
Scott Walker,
Saccharine Trust,
Minnie Riperton,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Modern Lovers,
Joe Finger,
Sonny Sharrock,
Talk Talk,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marine Girls,
Sister Nancy,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Deakin,
Mission of Burma,
Funky Four + One,
Ultravox,
Charles Mingus,
Lou Christie,
Rosa Yemen,
PIL,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Andrew Hill,
Porter Ricks,
Tommy Roe,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Vainqueur,
Jeru the Damaja,
Babytalk,
Infiniti,
L. Decosne,
JFA,
Boredoms,
The Busters, The Busters, The Busters, The Busters.
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.