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 Lebanon and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Neil Young to the rap 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 Sight & Sound. All the underground hits.
All CMW tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fugs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ponytail,
Index,
Harpers Bizarre,
Throbbing Gristle,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Black Moon,
Parry Music,
Lower 48,
The Shadows of Knight,
Television Personalities,
Sight & Sound,
Roy Ayers,
Sun City Girls,
The Standells,
Sällskapet,
Neil Young,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ohio Players,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Gang of Four,
The Seeds,
Section 25,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Underground Resistance,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Surgeon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Suicide,
The Misunderstood,
Nico,
Rakim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Human League,
Wings,
The Sonics,
Sound Behaviour,
Subhumans,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Eli Mardock,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Brass Construction,
New Age Steppers,
Flipper,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
It's A Beautiful Day,
World's Most,
Mad Mike,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Loose Ends,
Magma,
Albert Ayler,
Flash Fearless,
Rosa Yemen,
Warren Ellis,
Saccharine Trust,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Juan Atkins,
Tomorrow,
The Leaves,
Godley & Creme,
Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson, Wally Richardson.
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.