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 Comoros 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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Gories to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All Lungfish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Coltrane 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joe Finger record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gabor Szabo,
Black Bananas,
Marshall Jefferson,
Albert Ayler,
Faust,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Velvet Underground,
Erasure,
Wolf Eyes,
Minutemen,
Dennis Brown,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Gladiators,
The Alarm Clocks,
Masters at Work,
Barry Ungar,
Matthew Bourne,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Radiohead,
Cal Tjader,
Cecil Taylor,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Royal Trux,
Neil Young,
Stetsasonic,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Cheater Slicks,
Archie Shepp,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
CMW,
The Music Machine,
These Immortal Souls,
Gong,
The Wake,
Soul II Soul,
Stockholm Monsters,
Donny Hathaway,
This Heat,
Quando Quango,
Janne Schatter,
Negative Approach,
Lakeside,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Five Americans,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Buckinghams,
Bill Near,
Nils Olav,
Sight & Sound,
Skarface,
Con Funk Shun,
Procol Harum,
Mantronix,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sarah Menescal,
Underground Resistance,
Yaz,
Can,
Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan, Dave Gahan.
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.