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 Malaysia and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Salvador.
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 Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Curtis Mayfield. All the underground hits.
All Rahsaan Roland Kirk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Make Up record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Shadows of Knight record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hoover,
Simply Red,
Mandrill,
Nico,
The Divine Comedy,
Roxy Music,
Johnny Clarke,
X-102,
Godley & Creme,
Ken Boothe,
Japan,
Flash Fearless,
Lucky Dragons,
The Blues Magoos,
The Barracudas,
Ornette Coleman,
Gang of Four,
Wasted Youth,
DJ Style,
The Buckinghams,
Minutemen,
Isaac Hayes,
LL Cool J,
Zapp,
Slick Rick,
The Fuzztones,
Sister Nancy,
Blossom Toes,
Main Source,
Barry Ungar,
John Foxx,
Crispian St. Peters,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Music Machine,
Laurel Aitken,
Rosa Yemen,
Eve St. Jones,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Sound,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Ice-T,
Danielle Patucci,
Jesper Dahlback,
the Germs,
Jerry's Kids,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Subhumans,
Altered Images,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Letta Mbulu,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Pantytec,
The Motions,
Dorothy Ashby,
One Last Wish,
Tears for Fears,
Grandmaster Flash,
Silicon Teens,
Fear,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Oblivians,
Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne, Jeff Lynne.
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.