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 Congo and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Litter to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All The Remains tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 snare and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Loose Ends,
Los Fastidios,
The Busters,
Zapp,
Harpers Bizarre,
Johnny Clarke,
Bobby Byrd,
Piero Umiliani,
Boredoms,
Scientists,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Dawn Penn,
Yellowson,
Main Source,
Laurel Aitken,
Colin Newman,
Model 500,
Erykah Badu,
Patti Smith,
Jacques Brel,
The Seeds,
Peter and Kerry,
Moebius,
Aaron Thompson,
Theoretical Girls,
These Immortal Souls,
Echospace,
In Retrospect,
Grandmaster Flash,
Crime,
Adolescents,
Brass Construction,
The Victims,
Whodini,
Can,
Massinfluence,
Heaven 17,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Oneida,
New Age Steppers,
Barclay James Harvest,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Ludus,
The Knickerbockers,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Joensuu 1685,
Monks,
Avey Tare,
John Coltrane,
Marc Almond,
Idris Muhammad,
Alton Ellis,
Arthur Verocai,
Fad Gadget,
Sandy B,
Niagra,
Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru, Guru Guru.
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.