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 Latvia and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Sonic Youth to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Clear Light. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers 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?
Grandmaster Flash,
Zapp,
Barrington Levy,
Matthew Halsall,
Bobby Hutcherson,
L. Decosne,
Dual Sessions,
Cybotron,
Minor Threat,
Thompson Twins,
Kayak,
Nas,
Nation of Ulysses,
Flamin' Groovies,
Dave Gahan,
The Divine Comedy,
Dennis Brown,
Niagra,
Angry Samoans,
Hasil Adkins,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marine Girls,
Alice Coltrane,
Grauzone,
Urselle,
Sonic Youth,
The Velvet Underground,
Don Cherry,
New Age Steppers,
Johnny Clarke,
Hashim,
The Zeros,
The Names,
The United States of America,
Qualms,
Swans,
Arcadia,
The Music Machine,
Derrick May,
Bizarre Inc.,
Erykah Badu,
Eden Ahbez,
Ultravox,
Gong,
Symarip,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Al Stewart,
Technova,
Pierre Henry,
Tommy Roe,
Toni Rubio,
The Angels of Light,
Essential Logic,
Nico,
Nick Fraelich,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Talk Talk,
Eric Dolphy,
Adolescents,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.