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 Latvia and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 The Real Kids to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
The Beau Brummels,
Bobby Hutcherson,
kango's stein massive,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Move,
Crash Course in Science,
The Cure,
The Buckinghams,
Delta 5,
the Bar-Kays,
Black Moon,
Royal Trux,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Livin' Joy,
Ponytail,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Offenders,
Donny Hathaway,
Unrelated Segments,
Bauhaus,
The Smoke,
Black Bananas,
Cymande,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Oneida,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Susan Cadogan,
Moss Icon,
Japan,
Grey Daturas,
The Fugs,
Easy Going,
Wolf Eyes,
Stiv Bators,
Soul II Soul,
Black Flag,
Boz Scaggs,
Reagan Youth,
The Modern Lovers,
These Immortal Souls,
David McCallum,
David Axelrod,
Chrome,
Terrestrial Tones,
Make Up,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Parry Music,
Pere Ubu,
Quantec,
Fugazi,
Prince Buster,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Erasure,
Lou Christie,
Lou Reed,
Half Japanese,
The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s.
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.