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 Norway and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Technova to the grunge 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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All The Misunderstood tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Henry Cow,
Index,
The Fall,
Qualms,
The Dave Clark Five,
Johnny Clarke,
Suburban Knight,
Scion,
Rotary Connection,
Scan 7,
Sight & Sound,
Archie Shepp,
FM Einheit,
Byron Stingily,
Gang Starr,
Tears for Fears,
The Fuzztones,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Pagans,
Black Flag,
Slave,
Neu!,
Minor Threat,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Modern Lovers,
Newcleus,
Johnny Osbourne,
Easy Going,
Hasil Adkins,
Be Bop Deluxe,
B.T. Express,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Robert Hood,
Nirvana,
The Barracudas,
The Buckinghams,
The Red Krayola,
Urselle,
Cal Tjader,
Radiohead,
The J.B.'s,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Swell Maps,
Mary Jane Girls,
Excepter,
The Invisible,
the Normal,
Altered Images,
PIL,
cv313,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Associates,
Unrelated Segments,
Sarah Menescal,
The Fugs,
Eddi Front,
Television Personalities,
Niagra,
The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots, The Grass Roots.
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.