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 Turkey and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 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 Dave Gahan to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Gladiators. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Finger record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kool G Rap & DJ Polo 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?
Frankie Knuckles,
Idris Muhammad,
Can,
OOIOO,
Aloha Tigers,
Mary Jane Girls,
Skarface,
Lebanon Hanover,
Delta 5,
Amon Düül,
Negative Approach,
Moby Grape,
Skaos,
Drexciya,
Nirvana,
Jeff Lynne,
Severed Heads,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Sonics,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Seeds,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Dave Gahan,
Tubeway Army,
China Crisis,
Ice-T,
Wings,
Howard Jones,
Gabor Szabo,
The Buckinghams,
John Holt,
Massinfluence,
Bang On A Can,
Basic Channel,
Laurel Aitken,
Harpers Bizarre,
Sexual Harrassment,
Kerrie Biddell,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nils Olav,
48th St. Collective,
Dawn Penn,
Alice Coltrane,
The Raincoats,
The Selecter,
The Angels of Light,
Joensuu 1685,
Sam Rivers,
Amon Düül II,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ponytail,
Joey Negro,
Japan,
Simply Red,
Wolf Eyes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Alphaville,
Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators.
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.