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 Kenya and from Portland.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Music Machine to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Massinfluence. All the underground hits.
All The Buckinghams tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drive Like Jehu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Cameo,
Brothers Johnson,
Niagra,
10cc,
Newcleus,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Suicide,
Alphaville,
Simply Red,
The Seeds,
Matthew Halsall,
Tim Buckley,
Mantronix,
Second Layer,
Scott Walker,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Monolake,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Underground Resistance,
Robert Hood,
The Searchers,
Man Parrish,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Audionom,
Maleditus Sound,
Faraquet,
Bill Wells,
The Happenings,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Litter,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The Last Poets,
Todd Terry,
Rapeman,
Panda Bear,
H. Thieme,
Dorothy Ashby,
Dave Gahan,
Steve Hackett,
Jerry's Kids,
The Flesh Eaters,
This Heat,
Main Source,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
the Association,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Yusef Lateef,
Black Flag,
Avey Tare,
Make Up,
Aural Exciters,
Liliput,
Ultra Naté,
Ponytail,
Sam Rivers,
The Vogues,
cv313,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.