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 Ghana and from Accra.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 EPMD to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Hasil Adkins. All the underground hits.
All Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Audionom 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grauzone 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?
Tommy Roe,
Neu!,
Rotary Connection,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Shadows of Knight,
Derrick May,
Ken Boothe,
Erykah Badu,
AZ,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Amon Düül II,
Roxette,
Wally Richardson,
Oblivians,
The United States of America,
The Standells,
Sparks,
The Misunderstood,
ABC,
Absolute Body Control,
Laurel Aitken,
La Düsseldorf,
Rites of Spring,
FM Einheit,
The Red Krayola,
L. Decosne,
Ludus,
Andrew Hill,
The Mojo Men,
The Count Five,
Neil Young,
Alphaville,
Pole,
Dennis Brown,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Eve St. Jones,
The J.B.'s,
Kurtis Blow,
Susan Cadogan,
The Stooges,
Amon Düül,
Johnny Osbourne,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Sam Rivers,
Pet Shop Boys,
Maurizio,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kenny Larkin,
Blancmange,
Roxy Music,
The Names,
Japan,
Fear,
The Motions,
John Cale,
Idris Muhammad,
Junior Murvin,
Steve Hackett,
New York Dolls,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.