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 Tuvalu and from Columbus.
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 1961 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro 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 MC5 to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Agent Orange. All the underground hits.
All Anakelly tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boredoms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brick,
The Techniques,
Livin' Joy,
Todd Rundgren,
Jesper Dahlback,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Dirtbombs,
Oblivians,
Neil Young,
Fat Boys,
Joe Finger,
Eric B and Rakim,
Lebanon Hanover,
Donald Byrd,
Rakim,
The Doors,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Remains,
David Bowie,
Model 500,
The Electric Prunes,
Ken Boothe,
Newcleus,
Black Pus,
Von Mondo,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Amon Düül,
Sun City Girls,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Scott Walker,
Suburban Knight,
OOIOO,
Juan Atkins,
John Holt,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bluetip,
Ten City,
Bobbi Humphrey,
David McCallum,
Jeff Lynne,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Aloha Tigers,
the Slits,
Judy Mowatt,
Tom Boy,
Organ,
Banda Bassotti,
Dual Sessions,
Marine Girls,
Joey Negro,
Byron Stingily,
8 Eyed Spy,
Radio Birdman,
The Golliwogs,
The Black Dice,
The New Christs,
Sparks,
Gil Scott Heron,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Shadows of Knight,
Deadbeat,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.