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 Italy and from Tokyo.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Delhi.
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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the guitar 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 Zero Boys to the techno 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 Ralphi Rosario. All the underground hits.
All Drive Like Jehu 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 grunge 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 sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tropical Tobacco record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joey Negro,
These Immortal Souls,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Drive Like Jehu,
Crime,
The Birthday Party,
Godley & Creme,
Gang Starr,
Dave Gahan,
The Walker Brothers,
ABBA,
Shoche,
Pole,
kango's stein massive,
Man Eating Sloth,
The Gories,
Fugazi,
Gil Scott Heron,
Slave,
LL Cool J,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Pere Ubu,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Eric Copeland,
The Human League,
Minnie Riperton,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bobby Womack,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Grass Roots,
Roxy Music,
John Foxx,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Detroit Cobras,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Joe Finger,
T. Rex,
Donald Byrd,
Todd Rundgren,
Cheater Slicks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Zero Boys,
The American Breed,
The Mojo Men,
D'Angelo,
The Fuzztones,
the Sonics,
Freddie Wadling,
Rotary Connection,
The Smoke,
Ten City,
L. Decosne,
Rufus Thomas,
Clear Light,
Tom Boy,
Young Marble Giants,
The Techniques,
Silicon Teens,
This Heat,
E-Dancer,
Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones, Terrestrial Tones.
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.