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 Chad and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Adolescents to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Bourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scientists record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Supertramp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Qualms,
Underground Resistance,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Althea and Donna,
Yaz,
Gang Starr,
Anthony Braxton,
Kayak,
48th St. Collective,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Joy Division,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Roy Ayers,
Subhumans,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Index,
Kurtis Blow,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Human League,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
the Swans,
Pere Ubu,
The Raincoats,
Marshall Jefferson,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Pet Shop Boys,
Reuben Wilson,
Crime,
Ralphi Rosario,
Robert Wyatt,
DNA,
Donald Byrd,
Skarface,
The Real Kids,
Pole,
Deadbeat,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Newcleus,
Flipper,
Sandy B,
Grandmaster Flash,
Au Pairs,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sister Nancy,
Terrestrial Tones,
Second Layer,
Saccharine Trust,
Matthew Halsall,
The Gun Club,
Unwound,
Dead Boys,
Mandrill,
L. Decosne,
The Blues Magoos,
Kaleidoscope,
Sun Ra,
Alice Coltrane,
Maleditus Sound,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Bush Tetras,
Erykah Badu,
Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee, Spoonie Gee.
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.