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 Serbia and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 synthesizer 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 Leonard Cohen to the rap 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 Severed Heads. All the underground hits.
All Negative Approach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mighty Diamonds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
Junior Murvin,
Theoretical Girls,
Lucky Dragons,
Ponytail,
Maleditus Sound,
Isaac Hayes,
Country Teasers,
Derrick Morgan,
Audionom,
the Slits,
Toni Rubio,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Invisible,
Tears for Fears,
Boredoms,
Sarah Menescal,
Harpers Bizarre,
Easy Going,
Gang of Four,
Nik Kershaw,
Scott Walker,
Pagans,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Yusef Lateef,
Radio Birdman,
kango's stein massive,
Kerrie Biddell,
10cc,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Brass Construction,
Pierre Henry,
Bizarre Inc.,
FM Einheit,
Technova,
Funky Four + One,
Scion,
Boogie Down Productions,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Kevin Saunderson,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lebanon Hanover,
Nation of Ulysses,
Radiopuhelimet,
Sexual Harrassment,
Gang Green,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yellowson,
Fela Kuti,
Rapeman,
Darondo,
The Motions,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Monks,
Malaria!,
The Searchers,
Pole,
The Angels of Light,
Skarface,
Tubeway Army,
The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things, The Pretty Things.
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.