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 Ecuador and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 clarinet 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 Lucky Dragons to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle 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 güiro and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Moody Blues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Technova,
Delta 5,
The Gladiators,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Techniques,
Public Enemy,
Electric Prunes,
Erasure,
Lyres,
Chris & Cosey,
Idris Muhammad,
Skaos,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Slits,
OOIOO,
Eurythmics,
PIL,
Cameo,
Grey Daturas,
Lee Hazlewood,
UT,
Royal Trux,
Thompson Twins,
Zapp,
kango's stein massive,
Bronski Beat,
Country Teasers,
Scan 7,
Black Flag,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
China Crisis,
Guru Guru,
Thee Headcoats,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Invisible,
Magazine,
Man Parrish,
Echospace,
Laurel Aitken,
Godley & Creme,
In Retrospect,
DJ Sneak,
Drexciya,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Derrick Morgan,
Sex Pistols,
Aaron Thompson,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Agitation Free,
Aloha Tigers,
Harpers Bizarre,
Supertramp,
Moss Icon,
Boredoms,
Zero Boys,
Ralphi Rosario,
Nick Fraelich,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.