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 Iceland and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Spokane.
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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Slits to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All The Fugs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Michelle Simonal record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Connie Case record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Alice Coltrane,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Steve Hackett,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Electric Prunes,
Negative Approach,
The Monks,
The Neon Judgement,
Sight & Sound,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Funkadelic,
Juan Atkins,
Accadde A,
Marc Almond,
Warsaw,
The Raincoats,
The Offenders,
MC5,
Roxette,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bobby Byrd,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Eric Dolphy,
X-102,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Con Funk Shun,
The Mummies,
Au Pairs,
the Germs,
Gang Gang Dance,
Pierre Henry,
Shuggie Otis,
Kayak,
The Grass Roots,
Siglo XX,
Vainqueur,
Al Stewart,
Silicon Teens,
Charles Mingus,
Monolake,
The Barracudas,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Newcleus,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Roy Ayers,
New Age Steppers,
Deepchord,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Gang Green,
Ornette Coleman,
Bizarre Inc.,
DJ Style,
Black Flag,
Mantronix,
ABC,
Idris Muhammad,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Arcadia,
The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics, The Sonics.
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.