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 Denmark and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Lou Reed 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 Masters at Work to the rap 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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Whodini tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker,
R.M.O.,
Lower 48,
Masters at Work,
Monolake,
The Evens,
Robert Wyatt,
Bob Dylan,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Sonics,
David Bowie,
Little Man,
John Foxx,
Kas Product,
Duran Duran,
Big Daddy Kane,
Todd Rundgren,
Frankie Knuckles,
Gregory Isaacs,
Loose Ends,
the Human League,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Misunderstood,
Bluetip,
Section 25,
Underground Resistance,
Howard Jones,
The Fortunes,
Wolf Eyes,
Don Cherry,
Idris Muhammad,
The Dirtbombs,
The Tremeloes,
The Velvet Underground,
DJ Sneak,
Ultimate Spinach,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Terrestrial Tones,
Silicon Teens,
Moby Grape,
Unwound,
Delta 5,
Quando Quango,
Heaven 17,
Jandek,
Darondo,
Country Teasers,
T.S.O.L.,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Boredoms,
Minny Pops,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Dead C,
cv313,
The Offenders,
Gil Scott Heron,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Tubeway Army,
Rites of Spring,
The United States of America,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry.
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.