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 Antigua and from Johannesburg.
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 1966 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 spring reverb 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 Mo-Dettes to the funk 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 Josef K. All the underground hits.
All Thompson Twins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drexciya 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eric B and Rakim record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lakeside,
L. Decosne,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
E-Dancer,
Don Cherry,
Mad Mike,
Ronnie Foster,
The Kinks,
Spoonie Gee,
The Golliwogs,
Lucky Dragons,
Erasure,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Fela Kuti,
UT,
Thompson Twins,
Easy Going,
The Fire Engines,
The Residents,
Fad Gadget,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Vogues,
The Grass Roots,
Arab on Radar,
Joey Negro,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Man Eating Sloth,
Kayak,
Franke,
Tommy Roe,
Qualms,
Subhumans,
Metal Thangz,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Real Kids,
Lee Hazlewood,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Altered Images,
Michelle Simonal,
Henry Cow,
X-102,
The Mojo Men,
The Fugs,
FM Einheit,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Tubeway Army,
X-Ray Spex,
Grey Daturas,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Gang of Four,
The Fuzztones,
The Moody Blues,
Surgeon,
Peter & Gordon,
Sight & Sound,
Mantronix,
Curtis Mayfield,
Camouflage,
Nick Fraelich,
Main Source, Main Source, Main Source, Main Source.
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.