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 Guatemala and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 808 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 Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines to the rap kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a La Düsseldorf record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pere Ubu,
Brass Construction,
The Remains,
The Modern Lovers,
Todd Rundgren,
Can,
Tom Boy,
Alison Limerick,
Suburban Knight,
Stiv Bators,
Cecil Taylor,
John Holt,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Dirtbombs,
Reagan Youth,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Magazine,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Radiohead,
Lee Hazlewood,
Chris Corsano,
The Mojo Men,
Urselle,
Cluster,
Dark Day,
Sam Rivers,
June of 44,
Neu!,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Tim Buckley,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gabor Szabo,
Sight & Sound,
The Fire Engines,
Skaos,
Second Layer,
Technova,
the Bar-Kays,
Livin' Joy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Blake Baxter,
The Moody Blues,
The Fortunes,
Public Image Ltd.,
Funkadelic,
In Retrospect,
Faraquet,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Soul Sonic Force,
Simply Red,
Grandmaster Flash,
Jawbox,
H. Thieme,
Moss Icon,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Section 25,
Judy Mowatt,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Move,
ABC,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.