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 Belgium and from Hong Kong.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Mandrill to the electroclash kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Soft Machine. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Saccharine Trust 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters 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?
Grey Daturas,
Swans,
The Motions,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Organ,
Television,
The Walker Brothers,
CMW,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Gong,
Soft Cell,
Erykah Badu,
Boogie Down Productions,
Maurizio,
Aloha Tigers,
Schoolly D,
The Smiths,
DJ Sneak,
Ludus,
Lalann,
Nik Kershaw,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Minutemen,
Letta Mbulu,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Harry Pussy,
Audionom,
Massinfluence,
Piero Umiliani,
Bobby Sherman,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
K-Klass,
Barry Ungar,
Panda Bear,
Alphaville,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Yazoo,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Slackers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Kinks,
The Stooges,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jerry's Kids,
JFA,
Grandmaster Flash,
Roxette,
Cecil Taylor,
The Red Krayola,
Can,
Television Personalities,
the Slits,
Alice Coltrane,
Kayak,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Newcleus,
Rapeman,
Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside, Lakeside.
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.