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 Greece and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 Michael McDonald 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 Dave Clark Five to the punk 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 John Lydon. All the underground hits.
All The Walker Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Smog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
Joyce Sims,
Boz Scaggs,
Severed Heads,
Chris & Cosey,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Babytalk,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Cosmic Jokers,
EPMD,
Section 25,
The Monochrome Set,
Cameo,
cv313,
The Index,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Lakeside,
Franke,
Maurizio,
Depeche Mode,
Spandau Ballet,
Black Flag,
Echospace,
The Cowsills,
Eddi Front,
Panda Bear,
John Cale,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Cymande,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Can,
The Remains,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Mojo Men,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Leonard Cohen,
Cecil Taylor,
Jacob Miller,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Altered Images,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
DJ Style,
Tommy Roe,
Whodini,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
John Foxx,
Moss Icon,
Kaleidoscope,
Malaria!,
The Victims,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Shadows of Knight,
Basic Channel,
Flash Fearless,
MDC,
Anakelly,
Piero Umiliani,
The Skatalites,
Erykah Badu,
Warsaw,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band.
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.