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 Turkey and from Houston.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Marine Girls to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quantec record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
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,
Livin' Joy,
Can,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Silicon Teens,
Graham Central Station,
The Trojans,
Electric Prunes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Pharoah Sanders,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Black Dice,
Fluxion,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Adolescents,
Crime,
Arthur Verocai,
The Standells,
Sam Rivers,
Don Cherry,
Barry Ungar,
The American Breed,
The Pretty Things,
Pagans,
The New Christs,
Rekid,
David Bowie,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gichy Dan,
The Names,
Brass Construction,
Steve Hackett,
Johnny Clarke,
Hot Snakes,
Nils Olav,
The Smiths,
Jandek,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
the Germs,
Chris Corsano,
Iggy Pop,
Terrestrial Tones,
Soul II Soul,
T.S.O.L.,
Cameo,
Reagan Youth,
Cabaret Voltaire,
New York Dolls,
Liliput,
Panda Bear,
Monks,
Kayak,
Hoover,
The Moleskins,
Neu!,
Bob Dylan,
Massinfluence,
The Blackbyrds,
The Tremeloes,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.