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 Lithuania and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 ABBA to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Guru Guru. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cecil Taylor 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Association,
Dual Sessions,
E-Dancer,
Eric Dolphy,
Laurel Aitken,
Jerry's Kids,
Section 25,
Whodini,
Donald Byrd,
Hardrive,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Alphaville,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Residents,
Fear,
T.S.O.L.,
Lyres,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Rotary Connection,
Make Up,
Marine Girls,
Delta 5,
Lindisfarne,
Suicide,
Jacob Miller,
cv313,
Parry Music,
Gerry Rafferty,
Eve St. Jones,
Johnny Osbourne,
The New Christs,
Qualms,
Fluxion,
Connie Case,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Beau Brummels,
Susan Cadogan,
MDC,
Angry Samoans,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Blues Magoos,
Soft Machine,
The Raincoats,
Magazine,
Brass Construction,
Rod Modell,
Henry Cow,
Maurizio,
Yellowson,
Nik Kershaw,
H. Thieme,
The Dirtbombs,
Fatback Band,
FM Einheit,
Surgeon,
Crash Course in Science,
Hoover,
Technova,
Pussy Galore,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Count Five,
Mark Hollis,
Panda Bear,
The Vogues,
Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans, Subhumans.
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.