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 Madagascar and from Shanghai.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 Tom Verlaine 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 Aswad 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 Whodini. All the underground hits.
All the Human League tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Royal Trux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mo-Dettes,
Unrelated Segments,
Ten City,
The Barracudas,
Gerry Rafferty,
Heaven 17,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rod Modell,
Colin Newman,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Albert Ayler,
a-ha,
The Gories,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
cv313,
The United States of America,
Chris Corsano,
Quadrant,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Pharoah Sanders,
Jandek,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lou Christie,
The Fortunes,
the Sonics,
Dave Gahan,
Anthony Braxton,
The Doobie Brothers,
B.T. Express,
The Young Rascals,
Crime,
CMW,
The Count Five,
Lower 48,
Blossom Toes,
Drive Like Jehu,
Fear,
Graham Central Station,
The Slackers,
the Normal,
The Gladiators,
EPMD,
Kerrie Biddell,
Harmonia,
Marmalade,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Marine Girls,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Young Marble Giants,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Chrome,
Bill Near,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Judy Mowatt,
Unwound,
The Searchers,
Lyres,
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.