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 Sudan and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 Flamin' Groovies to the jazz 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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Traffic Nightmare tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai 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?
Infiniti,
PIL,
Stockholm Monsters,
Quantec,
Silicon Teens,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Gang Starr,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Half Japanese,
The Wake,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Goldenarms,
Laurel Aitken,
June of 44,
Niagra,
Neil Young,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Motions,
Zapp,
Josef K,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
John Cale,
Basic Channel,
Television Personalities,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Spoonie Gee,
John Foxx,
Urselle,
Al Stewart,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
JFA,
Inner City,
D'Angelo,
Aaron Thompson,
Wolf Eyes,
John Holt,
Tim Buckley,
Tommy Roe,
Rhythm & Sound,
Roxy Music,
Eli Mardock,
Alice Coltrane,
Fatback Band,
The Monks,
The Divine Comedy,
Cal Tjader,
Pharoah Sanders,
Nirvana,
Barrington Levy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Oneida,
Leonard Cohen,
A Certain Ratio,
Camberwell Now,
Pole,
Bobby Sherman,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.