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 Madagascar and from Calgary.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Michelle Simonal to the disco 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 Skaos. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Popol Vuh record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lalann,
Juan Atkins,
Sarah Menescal,
Smog,
Jacques Brel,
Moss Icon,
Black Flag,
Gerry Rafferty,
Basic Channel,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Flash Fearless,
Frankie Knuckles,
AZ,
Animal Collective,
Mad Mike,
Wings,
The Moleskins,
The Fire Engines,
Thompson Twins,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
DJ Sneak,
Blossom Toes,
Sun City Girls,
Wasted Youth,
Soul II Soul,
Pantaleimon,
Dual Sessions,
Ronnie Foster,
Skaos,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Marmalade,
Dave Gahan,
Joe Finger,
Minny Pops,
Youth Brigade,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Goldenarms,
Bush Tetras,
the Normal,
Erasure,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Cameo,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sexual Harrassment,
Tropical Tobacco,
T. Rex,
The Star Department,
Gang of Four,
Roy Ayers,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cal Tjader,
The Red Krayola,
The Offenders,
U.S. Maple,
Skriet,
Negative Approach,
Tom Boy,
Pet Shop Boys,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Junior Murvin,
Chris & Cosey,
Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra, Sun Ra Arkestra.
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.