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 Egypt and from Mumbai.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 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 the Normal to the jazz 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 Arcadia. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
One Last Wish,
Unwound,
Glambeats Corp.,
Pharoah Sanders,
Eric Copeland,
The Tremeloes,
The Grass Roots,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Fall,
New Order,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
John Cale,
Flash Fearless,
Mark Hollis,
Crispian St. Peters,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
D'Angelo,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ludus,
Idris Muhammad,
Susan Cadogan,
Bauhaus,
Little Man,
The Sonics,
Ronan,
Roger Hodgson,
Quadrant,
Hardrive,
Man Eating Sloth,
FM Einheit,
The Pretty Things,
8 Eyed Spy,
Hasil Adkins,
Shuggie Otis,
The Residents,
Tom Boy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Moby Grape,
Kerrie Biddell,
Johnny Osbourne,
Joy Division,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Radiohead,
Rufus Thomas,
Essential Logic,
Blossom Toes,
Gang Green,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Fortunes,
KRS-One,
Monks,
The Slits,
F. McDonald,
The Move,
Derrick Morgan,
Graham Central Station,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Brass Construction,
Sarah Menescal,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.