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 Botswana and from Spokane.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Tehran.
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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Sonics to the funk 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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Louis and Bebe Barron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter & Gordon 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wally Richardson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Curtis Mayfield,
Skaos,
Khruangbin,
Glenn Branca,
Circle Jerks,
Scan 7,
Nico,
Rhythm & Sound,
The Doors,
Sparks,
Absolute Body Control,
Ultravox,
Matthew Halsall,
Sällskapet,
Sexual Harrassment,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Moody Blues,
LL Cool J,
Roxette,
June Days,
The Divine Comedy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Michelle Simonal,
Wolf Eyes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Leonard Cohen,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barbara Tucker,
DNA,
Terry Callier,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Mummies,
Zapp,
Cluster,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sonny Sharrock,
New Order,
Country Teasers,
Ice-T,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
La Düsseldorf,
This Heat,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Harpers Bizarre,
Aural Exciters,
Chrome,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Make Up,
Gerry Rafferty,
Eve St. Jones,
Pere Ubu,
Sun Ra,
Roxy Music,
Scott Walker,
Youth Brigade,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Outsiders,
Q and Not U,
Jeff Mills,
cv313,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.