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 Ethiopia and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 organ 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 Nation of Ulysses to the rock 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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tubeway Army record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 808 and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minny Pops,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Pylon,
Sparks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Pretty Things,
DJ Style,
LL Cool J,
MC5,
Clear Light,
a-ha,
James White and The Blacks,
Wolf Eyes,
Drive Like Jehu,
Vladislav Delay,
Hashim,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Desert Stars,
Amon Düül,
Sonic Youth,
The Leaves,
Laurel Aitken,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Public Image Ltd.,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Deepchord,
Ultra Naté,
Yusef Lateef,
Carl Craig,
Massinfluence,
Rekid,
48th St. Collective,
Boredoms,
Faraquet,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Monolake,
Scott Walker,
The American Breed,
The Wake,
Tears for Fears,
T. Rex,
10cc,
The Zeros,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kenny Larkin,
Chris Corsano,
Steve Hackett,
Byron Stingily,
The New Christs,
the Bar-Kays,
Tropical Tobacco,
Boz Scaggs,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Judy Mowatt,
Index,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Matthew Bourne,
Juan Atkins,
Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science.
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.