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 Canada and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Columbus.
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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Soulsonic Force to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks. All the underground hits.
All Lafayette Afro Rock Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thee Headcoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
Jesper Dahlback,
Swans,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
CMW,
DJ Style,
Maleditus Sound,
New York Dolls,
Easy Going,
Lalann,
Spandau Ballet,
D'Angelo,
Rapeman,
The Barracudas,
Lakeside,
Fear,
Scrapy,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Kurtis Blow,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Letta Mbulu,
Pussy Galore,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Brass Construction,
Make Up,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Golliwogs,
Neu!,
Camberwell Now,
OOIOO,
Altered Images,
Harpers Bizarre,
David Axelrod,
Scan 7,
Lightning Bolt,
Jacques Brel,
the Human League,
The Kinks,
The Modern Lovers,
Godley & Creme,
Stiv Bators,
Babytalk,
Joe Smooth,
The Fall,
Gichy Dan,
Marc Almond,
Robert Wyatt,
Morten Harket,
Symarip,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Index,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Con Funk Shun,
Stetsasonic,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Second Layer,
Depeche Mode,
Mr. Review,
Jawbox,
Connie Case,
The Star Department,
Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red, Simply Red.
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.