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 Serbia and from Winnipeg.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Lou Reed 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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 DNA. All the underground hits.
All Notorious Big And Bone Thugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Crispian St. Peters,
Inner City,
MC5,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Jandek,
Crash Course in Science,
The Blues Magoos,
Tomorrow,
David McCallum,
Al Stewart,
Camouflage,
Thompson Twins,
Marc Almond,
Sandy B,
Warren Ellis,
Marvin Gaye,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Kevin Saunderson,
Anthony Braxton,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Groovy Waters,
The Searchers,
Vainqueur,
Roxette,
the Association,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Seeds,
PIL,
Soulsonic Force,
Black Moon,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Oneida,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Althea and Donna,
Chrome,
Depeche Mode,
Index,
Kayak,
The United States of America,
The Techniques,
Arthur Verocai,
Gastr Del Sol,
Panda Bear,
Sound Behaviour,
UT,
the Germs,
Deadbeat,
Hoover,
James White and The Blacks,
Toni Rubio,
Yazoo,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ken Boothe,
The Wake,
Mo-Dettes,
Neil Young,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kaleidoscope,
Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron, Cybotron.
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.