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 Turkey and from Sao Paulo.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 Donald Fagen 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 ABC to the jazz 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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All kango's stein massive tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Thee Headcoats record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultravox,
Zapp,
The Last Poets,
Rod Modell,
Rekid,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Howard Jones,
The Mojo Men,
Au Pairs,
The Happenings,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Wake,
Rotary Connection,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Quantec,
Piero Umiliani,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Arthur Verocai,
Don Cherry,
Marcia Griffiths,
Marine Girls,
Mark Hollis,
Davy DMX,
Saccharine Trust,
The Human League,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Barbara Tucker,
the Association,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
New Age Steppers,
Crispian St. Peters,
Nas,
Deepchord,
48th St. Collective,
Dave Gahan,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
D'Angelo,
Wings,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gregory Isaacs,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Walker Brothers,
Wasted Youth,
The Fortunes,
Reagan Youth,
The Dirtbombs,
The Moody Blues,
Minnie Riperton,
Procol Harum,
Kerri Chandler,
Jeff Mills,
The Golliwogs,
Sällskapet,
Bauhaus,
Altered Images,
The Seeds,
Johnny Osbourne,
Nils Olav,
Anakelly,
Pharoah Sanders,
Janne Schatter,
Jandek,
The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy, The Sisters of Mercy.
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.