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 Namibia and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the theremin 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 James Chance & The Contortions to the jazz 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 Joe Finger. All the underground hits.
All Louis and Bebe Barron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Country Teasers 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Louis and Bebe Barron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Johnny Clarke,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Oneida,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eurythmics,
the Germs,
Kerri Chandler,
Grandmaster Flash,
David McCallum,
Tears for Fears,
Warsaw,
The Misunderstood,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Kenny Larkin,
Skriet,
U.S. Maple,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Essential Logic,
John Coltrane,
Yaz,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Y Pants,
Cybotron,
a-ha,
David Axelrod,
Sun Ra,
Anakelly,
Lalo Schifrin,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Rod Modell,
Sam Rivers,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Durutti Column,
Bootsy Collins,
Cymande,
Ultravox,
Tropical Tobacco,
Eric B and Rakim,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
June Days,
The Human League,
Minny Pops,
Toni Rubio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Simply Red,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Soulsonic Force,
The Associates,
Kas Product,
Bizarre Inc.,
Cheater Slicks,
Magma,
Radiohead,
The Happenings,
Kaleidoscope,
Nick Fraelich,
The Five Americans,
kango's stein massive,
Parry Music,
New Age Steppers,
Mad Mike,
T.S.O.L.,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds.
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.