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 Tonga and from Accra.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Tom Boy to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 The Fugs. All the underground hits.
All Neu! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Circle Jerks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
Aloha Tigers,
Barry Ungar,
The Gun Club,
Oblivians,
Rosa Yemen,
PIL,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sonic Youth,
Minny Pops,
Wire,
The Zeros,
Cymande,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Yazoo,
Groovy Waters,
The Grass Roots,
Swell Maps,
The Moleskins,
Suicide,
Symarip,
The Evens,
Toni Rubio,
The Flesh Eaters,
Mandrill,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Roxy Music,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ludus,
Jacob Miller,
Danielle Patucci,
Gregory Isaacs,
Jerry's Kids,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
MC5,
Los Fastidios,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Fela Kuti,
Howard Jones,
Second Layer,
Kerri Chandler,
Ralphi Rosario,
Freddie Wadling,
Dawn Penn,
Yusef Lateef,
Drive Like Jehu,
Country Teasers,
Aural Exciters,
Neu!,
Lalann,
Adolescents,
Kerrie Biddell,
Wasted Youth,
The Modern Lovers,
Kas Product,
Con Funk Shun,
Gong,
Eddi Front,
Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff, Jimmy McGriff.
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.