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 Syria and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Lightning Bolt to the rock kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Nico. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kevin Saunderson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nik Kershaw,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Sam Rivers,
DNA,
Massinfluence,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Thee Headcoats,
Drive Like Jehu,
Shoche,
The Vogues,
The Monochrome Set,
the Sonics,
Glambeats Corp.,
Deadbeat,
Bad Manners,
Inner City,
Siglo XX,
Joey Negro,
The Moleskins,
Los Fastidios,
Jeru the Damaja,
Slick Rick,
Junior Murvin,
The Skatalites,
Cymande,
Moss Icon,
Jacob Miller,
Section 25,
The Real Kids,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Rotary Connection,
Roy Ayers,
The Blues Magoos,
Eden Ahbez,
The Techniques,
June Days,
The Music Machine,
Derrick May,
This Heat,
Quantec,
Magma,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bang On A Can,
Scion,
Radiopuhelimet,
Michelle Simonal,
Barry Ungar,
Hoover,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Offenders,
Erasure,
The Five Americans,
X-102,
The Cure,
Neu!,
Max Romeo,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fatback Band,
Hardrive,
Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson, Roger Hodgson.
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.