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 Sweden and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 The Evens to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Thee Headcoats. All the underground hits.
All Gang Green tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Roxy Music record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Smog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Saccharine Trust,
Desert Stars,
Josef K,
Susan Cadogan,
Half Japanese,
Kenny Larkin,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Subhumans,
Rod Modell,
Royal Trux,
Youth Brigade,
Faust,
The Victims,
Animal Collective,
Pantytec,
Kool Moe Dee,
Sex Pistols,
The Smoke,
Circle Jerks,
Bobby Byrd,
The Associates,
Aswad,
The Young Rascals,
The Monochrome Set,
Blancmange,
The Five Americans,
Glambeats Corp.,
Janne Schatter,
Howard Jones,
Lou Christie,
Rites of Spring,
Make Up,
Slick Rick,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pantaleimon,
Television,
The Tremeloes,
The Pretty Things,
Deadbeat,
Traffic Nightmare,
Pagans,
Massinfluence,
The Electric Prunes,
The Zeros,
T. Rex,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Star Department,
Echospace,
Pylon,
the Slits,
Aloha Tigers,
The Sound,
Magma,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Unwound,
Moss Icon,
Lungfish,
Tears for Fears,
Zapp,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs, Notorious Big And Bone Thugs.
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.