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 Suriname and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Cowsills to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Human League. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
the Swans,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Durutti Column,
Eric B and Rakim,
Bang On A Can,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sandy B,
Idris Muhammad,
Livin' Joy,
Slick Rick,
Interpol,
Circle Jerks,
The Monochrome Set,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Negative Approach,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Isaac Hayes,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Tremeloes,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Donny Hathaway,
Sex Pistols,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Marshall Jefferson,
Cluster,
Kas Product,
Bobby Sherman,
Malaria!,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Blancmange,
Little Man,
T.S.O.L.,
Don Cherry,
Man Parrish,
China Crisis,
The Cure,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barbara Tucker,
Godley & Creme,
Slave,
Subhumans,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Flamin' Groovies,
Altered Images,
Jawbox,
Surgeon,
Barry Ungar,
Rufus Thomas,
The Fuzztones,
Glambeats Corp.,
X-101,
Marvin Gaye,
Moby Grape,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Grass Roots,
Arab on Radar,
Graham Central Station,
Dual Sessions,
The Associates, The Associates, The Associates, The Associates.
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.