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 Gambia and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Neu! to the crunk 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 D'Angelo. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Foxx record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Crispy Ambulance,
Sun City Girls,
DJ Sneak,
Johnny Clarke,
Black Flag,
Albert Ayler,
Little Man,
The Standells,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Faust,
Sonny Sharrock,
Q and Not U,
Nirvana,
Schoolly D,
Delta 5,
Graham Central Station,
Jimmy McGriff,
Marine Girls,
Sandy B,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Pop Group,
Pierre Henry,
The Fortunes,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Lyres,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Count Five,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Interpol,
Absolute Body Control,
Traffic Nightmare,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sun Ra,
Visage,
The Modern Lovers,
The Sound,
Gabor Szabo,
Radiopuhelimet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Tomorrow,
Boz Scaggs,
The Shadows of Knight,
Fluxion,
AZ,
Connie Case,
Letta Mbulu,
Ice-T,
Audionom,
The American Breed,
Tropical Tobacco,
Derrick Morgan,
The Stooges,
Pagans,
Joy Division,
Y Pants,
Simply Red,
Bad Manners,
Animal Collective,
Lower 48,
Ossler,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.