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 Spain and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 Lou Reed 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 Alphaville to the punk 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 Deadbeat. All the underground hits.
All Minny Pops tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minutemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
K-Klass,
Zero Boys,
Faust,
Ultimate Spinach,
Scientists,
The Mummies,
Gang Starr,
The Young Rascals,
Tomorrow,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
China Crisis,
Public Enemy,
Johnny Clarke,
Essential Logic,
Sixth Finger,
Con Funk Shun,
Oblivians,
Ralphi Rosario,
Marmalade,
Franke,
Gastr Del Sol,
Japan,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Kevin Saunderson,
Anthony Braxton,
The Selecter,
Make Up,
Erasure,
OOIOO,
Joyce Sims,
Zapp,
Byron Stingily,
Danielle Patucci,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Negative Approach,
Radiohead,
Ronnie Foster,
Arthur Verocai,
Schoolly D,
Lucky Dragons,
The Beau Brummels,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Patti Smith,
The Names,
Maurizio,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
cv313,
Sonic Youth,
Flipper,
Soft Cell,
John Holt,
Supertramp,
Trumans Water,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Spoonie Gee,
Fat Boys,
Qualms,
Blancmange,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Dark Day,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jimmy McGriff,
Minny Pops,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.