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 Sweden and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 sitar 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 Marc Almond to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
B.T. Express,
Severed Heads,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Brass Construction,
Minutemen,
The Walker Brothers,
Dual Sessions,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Donald Byrd,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Hardrive,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Todd Terry,
Joensuu 1685,
The Smoke,
Bush Tetras,
Delta 5,
Crooked Eye,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rufus Thomas,
Porter Ricks,
cv313,
The Divine Comedy,
The Mummies,
Das Ding,
Isaac Hayes,
The Gun Club,
Swans,
Motorama,
Q and Not U,
Lee Hazlewood,
LL Cool J,
Zapp,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Mojo Men,
The Black Dice,
Alison Limerick,
Underground Resistance,
Crash Course in Science,
Sonny Sharrock,
Dave Gahan,
Aural Exciters,
Audionom,
Lower 48,
A Certain Ratio,
Amon Düül II,
The Cramps,
Television Personalities,
The Real Kids,
The Raincoats,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Funky Four + One,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sällskapet,
Neu!,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sound Behaviour,
The Cure,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.