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 Taiwan and from Manila.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz to the jazz 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 Camberwell Now. All the underground hits.
All Manfred Mann's Earth Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Victims record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reuben Wilson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül,
10cc,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Detroit Cobras,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Tom Boy,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lightning Bolt,
Outsiders,
The Evens,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Motions,
Idris Muhammad,
Pagans,
Alphaville,
The Count Five,
Dave Gahan,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Tres Demented,
Kurtis Blow,
Todd Terry,
Derrick May,
Bobby Sherman,
Throbbing Gristle,
Charles Mingus,
CMW,
Black Moon,
Soulsonic Force,
Ponytail,
The Alarm Clocks,
ABBA,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Barry Ungar,
F. McDonald,
Television,
Skriet,
Funkadelic,
Frankie Knuckles,
Boredoms,
Tubeway Army,
Ossler,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Nation of Ulysses,
Crooked Eye,
Lou Reed,
Jacob Miller,
Nas,
Fifty Foot Hose,
D'Angelo,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Victims,
China Crisis,
Angry Samoans,
Chrome,
Patti Smith,
The Angels of Light,
Anthony Braxton,
Danielle Patucci,
Rhythm & Sound,
Letta Mbulu,
Roxy Music,
Little Man,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.