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 Iran and from Jakarta.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 theremin 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 Minor Threat to the grunge 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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All The Barracudas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players 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?
La Düsseldorf,
Rites of Spring,
Q65,
Colin Newman,
Liliput,
The Music Machine,
Mr. Review,
The Index,
China Crisis,
Susan Cadogan,
Moebius,
Loose Ends,
Dark Day,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Offenders,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Smiths,
John Coltrane,
Piero Umiliani,
Barbara Tucker,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Move,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Monolake,
Blossom Toes,
Brothers Johnson,
Jeff Mills,
The Gap Band,
Ituana,
It's A Beautiful Day,
LL Cool J,
The Victims,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Maleditus Sound,
L. Decosne,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Electric Prunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Underground Resistance,
Tim Buckley,
Mantronix,
Wally Richardson,
Gang Gang Dance,
ABC,
Flash Fearless,
Neil Young,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Clear Light,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Bob Dylan,
Franke,
Ronnie Foster,
The Blackbyrds,
A Certain Ratio,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Todd Terry,
Roy Ayers,
Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman, Ornette Coleman.
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.