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 Cyprus and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1964 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Skriet to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 T. Rex. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Franke record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Guru Guru,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Nas,
Donny Hathaway,
Cymande,
David McCallum,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Hardrive,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
David Bowie,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Avey Tare,
the Bar-Kays,
U.S. Maple,
Sound Behaviour,
Hasil Adkins,
The Slits,
Joey Negro,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Real Kids,
Bootsy Collins,
Stetsasonic,
Byron Stingily,
World's Most,
Massinfluence,
Inner City,
Deepchord,
New York Dolls,
Stereo Dub,
Moebius,
Colin Newman,
Television Personalities,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
MDC,
The Red Krayola,
Parry Music,
The Martian,
Ronnie Foster,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Trumans Water,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Boredoms,
Quando Quango,
Ohio Players,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Deadbeat,
Dorothy Ashby,
Marine Girls,
Peter & Gordon,
Talk Talk,
Danielle Patucci,
48th St. Collective,
Mo-Dettes,
Unrelated Segments,
Arthur Verocai,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Kool Moe Dee,
Pussy Galore,
The Human League,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.