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 Philippines and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Lyon.
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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Stiv Bators to the rap 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 David Axelrod. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Traffic Nightmare record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Man Eating Sloth,
Mars,
Marine Girls,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Schoolly D,
the Swans,
Spandau Ballet,
Joe Smooth,
The Busters,
Susan Cadogan,
The Velvet Underground,
Cal Tjader,
Bill Wells,
Depeche Mode,
Massinfluence,
Barrington Levy,
Wings,
cv313,
OOIOO,
Nik Kershaw,
Leonard Cohen,
Bronski Beat,
Iggy Pop,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Blackbyrds,
Maurizio,
Nick Fraelich,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Seeds,
Black Flag,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Byron Stingily,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Animal Collective,
Scrapy,
Soulsonic Force,
Cameo,
Whodini,
Lalann,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Joyce Sims,
Alison Limerick,
Gastr Del Sol,
DJ Sneak,
Siglo XX,
Isaac Hayes,
Khruangbin,
The Buckinghams,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Gerry Rafferty,
Rhythm & Sound,
Scion,
Black Moon,
Rod Modell,
Minny Pops,
Matthew Bourne,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Pretty Things,
Lebanon Hanover,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.