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 Belize and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 arpeggiator 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the disco 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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Absolute Body Control tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Strawberry Alarm Clock 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap 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?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Harmonia,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sun Ra,
Silicon Teens,
Judy Mowatt,
Symarip,
Spandau Ballet,
The Index,
Mary Jane Girls,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Marine Girls,
Laurel Aitken,
Robert Görl,
Absolute Body Control,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Smiths,
Guru Guru,
Anthony Braxton,
Boogie Down Productions,
MDC,
Glenn Branca,
Sister Nancy,
Crispy Ambulance,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Evens,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Reuben Wilson,
Rapeman,
Shoche,
Sugar Minott,
Japan,
Clear Light,
Sonic Youth,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Hashim,
Harry Pussy,
MC5,
Electric Light Orchestra,
PIL,
Maleditus Sound,
The Fall,
The Pretty Things,
The Slits,
Television Personalities,
Jimmy McGriff,
a-ha,
The Black Dice,
Kerri Chandler,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Stiv Bators,
Mark Hollis,
Intrusion,
Lindisfarne,
Brothers Johnson,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Eddi Front,
The Five Americans,
Quando Quango,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.