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 Iceland and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Theoretical Girls to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Lafayette Afro Rock Band. All the underground hits.
All Prince Buster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mantronix 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 '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 Y Pants record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
In Retrospect,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Massinfluence,
Sight & Sound,
Gong,
The Birthday Party,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Duran Duran,
The Smoke,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Count Five,
China Crisis,
Nirvana,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Maurizio,
Anakelly,
Sex Pistols,
Eric Dolphy,
Sister Nancy,
Eddi Front,
Brass Construction,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magazine,
Audionom,
Dual Sessions,
Iggy Pop,
The Vogues,
Tim Buckley,
Reagan Youth,
Barry Ungar,
Quantec,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ultravox,
Neu!,
New Order,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Barracudas,
The Searchers,
The Slits,
Bang On A Can,
Bronski Beat,
Crash Course in Science,
Theoretical Girls,
Camberwell Now,
Peter & Gordon,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Fluxion,
Quando Quango,
Idris Muhammad,
Pharoah Sanders,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Star Department,
The Associates,
Curtis Mayfield,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Zeros,
World's Most,
the Bar-Kays,
Whodini,
Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon, Black Moon.
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.