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 Samoa and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 chamberlin 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 the Normal to the grunge 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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun City Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiohead,
Bobbi Humphrey,
John Foxx,
Pylon,
Marcia Griffiths,
Erykah Badu,
The Gladiators,
Schoolly D,
Sugar Minott,
FM Einheit,
Cheater Slicks,
Flash Fearless,
Quando Quango,
The Modern Lovers,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Public Image Ltd.,
Saccharine Trust,
Ludus,
Derrick May,
The Cowsills,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Yaz,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Tremeloes,
Barry Ungar,
8 Eyed Spy,
Delta 5,
the Human League,
Delon & Dalcan,
Tropical Tobacco,
Crispy Ambulance,
Cameo,
The Black Dice,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Divine Comedy,
Gastr Del Sol,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Maurizio,
Sixth Finger,
Bobby Sherman,
Marvin Gaye,
The Standells,
Essential Logic,
The Slackers,
Dark Day,
The Angels of Light,
Make Up,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Invisible,
Roger Hodgson,
Peter & Gordon,
The Leaves,
Maleditus Sound,
In Retrospect,
Skriet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Pantaleimon,
The Misunderstood,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Donny Hathaway,
the Germs,
H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme, H. Thieme.
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.