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 Uruguay and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 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 Altered Images to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Cecil Taylor. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every UT record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fad Gadget,
Kas Product,
Blancmange,
Desert Stars,
Kurtis Blow,
Pussy Galore,
Echospace,
The Skatalites,
Charles Mingus,
Bobby Byrd,
Rosa Yemen,
Pere Ubu,
Bobbi Humphrey,
John Lydon,
The Smoke,
Zero Boys,
The Fire Engines,
Deepchord,
Nik Kershaw,
Curtis Mayfield,
Sister Nancy,
Ten City,
Spandau Ballet,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Saints,
Thompson Twins,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Cal Tjader,
Sexual Harrassment,
Barclay James Harvest,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
A Flock of Seagulls,
U.S. Maple,
Moss Icon,
Outsiders,
Adolescents,
Ossler,
Porter Ricks,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Music Machine,
Model 500,
Todd Rundgren,
Flipper,
Sex Pistols,
Michelle Simonal,
Hot Snakes,
Nick Fraelich,
Nirvana,
Dead Boys,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Names,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Cheater Slicks,
Rufus Thomas,
Niagra,
Silicon Teens,
Parry Music,
The Golliwogs,
Crime,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
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.