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 Bhutan and from Houston.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Divine Comedy to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Durutti Column. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bush Tetras record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Erasure,
Television Personalities,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Traffic Nightmare,
Junior Murvin,
Pierre Henry,
Yazoo,
Joy Division,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Whodini,
Blancmange,
Kevin Saunderson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eve St. Jones,
Scrapy,
cv313,
Young Marble Giants,
10cc,
Easy Going,
Colin Newman,
Ornette Coleman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Eurythmics,
China Crisis,
Mary Jane Girls,
Crispy Ambulance,
Ronnie Foster,
Main Source,
Andrew Hill,
Wally Richardson,
The Stooges,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Buzzcocks,
the Slits,
Nirvana,
Goldenarms,
Juan Atkins,
The Kinks,
Interpol,
Oneida,
Prince Buster,
Depeche Mode,
Pharoah Sanders,
OOIOO,
The Invisible,
The Vogues,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
One Last Wish,
ABC,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Electric Prunes,
The Trojans,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Cameo,
E-Dancer,
Letta Mbulu,
Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends, Loose Ends.
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.