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 Togo and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 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 T. Rex to the rock 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 Main Source. All the underground hits.
All Pharoah Sanders tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ossler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agent Orange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blancmange,
Hoover,
The Human League,
the Association,
The Remains,
The Stooges,
Dawn Penn,
ABC,
Moss Icon,
Ralphi Rosario,
Groovy Waters,
Porter Ricks,
Derrick Morgan,
Todd Terry,
Q and Not U,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bill Wells,
Oneida,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Babytalk,
Isaac Hayes,
Kaleidoscope,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Tomorrow,
Model 500,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Blues Magoos,
CMW,
Ronnie Foster,
Minutemen,
Donald Byrd,
Banda Bassotti,
Sandy B,
Intrusion,
Aswad,
Crash Course in Science,
Davy DMX,
In Retrospect,
Absolute Body Control,
Scott Walker,
The Busters,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
JFA,
Deepchord,
Janne Schatter,
Second Layer,
Scan 7,
Pantaleimon,
Mark Hollis,
Marcia Griffiths,
Cybotron,
The Trojans,
kango's stein massive,
Harmonia,
Crooked Eye,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jawbox,
Ituana,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Japan,
Althea and Donna,
The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks, The Kinks.
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.