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 Croatia and from Stockholm.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Stockholm.
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 güiro 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 The Mighty Diamonds to the disco kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang of Four record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ash Ra Tempel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Magazine,
New Order,
The Offenders,
The Neon Judgement,
Sun City Girls,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Surgeon,
Grandmaster Flash,
Duran Duran,
Hasil Adkins,
The Blues Magoos,
Zapp,
Los Fastidios,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Lou Reed,
Laurel Aitken,
K-Klass,
The Barracudas,
Funkadelic,
Pulsallama,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
La Düsseldorf,
Amazonics,
Grey Daturas,
Harmonia,
Siglo XX,
The Zeros,
Arab on Radar,
The Wake,
Ten City,
The Residents,
Howard Jones,
Thompson Twins,
Todd Terry,
Stiv Bators,
The Mummies,
Aaron Thompson,
Michelle Simonal,
JFA,
Terry Callier,
The Leaves,
Trumans Water,
Excepter,
Dorothy Ashby,
Curtis Mayfield,
John Cale,
Y Pants,
Blancmange,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Alphaville,
Brass Construction,
Ultravox,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
T. Rex,
Soft Cell,
Eve St. Jones,
Average White Band,
Wally Richardson,
Fugazi,
Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie, Lou Christie.
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.