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 Estonia and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Shoche to the rock kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All Howard Jones tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moss Icon 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 an arpeggiator and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
John Cale,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Ossler,
Ronnie Foster,
Audionom,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
the Slits,
The Remains,
Aswad,
The Cramps,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Dead C,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Mantronix,
Matthew Halsall,
Stereo Dub,
Cluster,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dual Sessions,
Mandrill,
Minor Threat,
UT,
Moby Grape,
Ponytail,
H. Thieme,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Jandek,
Donald Byrd,
Janne Schatter,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Warren Ellis,
Anthony Braxton,
Public Image Ltd.,
Second Layer,
The Litter,
Kool Moe Dee,
Charles Mingus,
X-101,
The Grass Roots,
Alphaville,
Junior Murvin,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Alice Coltrane,
Procol Harum,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Toni Rubio,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Stooges,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Knickerbockers,
the Association,
Depeche Mode,
Babytalk,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Soft Machine,
David Axelrod,
The Sound,
The Zeros,
Zapp,
Warsaw,
Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers, Sam Rivers.
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.