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 Lebanon and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 güiro 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 Television Personalities to the punk 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 Mandrill. All the underground hits.
All Gerry Rafferty tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Barry Ungar,
The Golliwogs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Slits,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Glambeats Corp.,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pantaleimon,
Graham Central Station,
Lakeside,
Negative Approach,
Stetsasonic,
MC5,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Fall,
Nation of Ulysses,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Quantec,
Letta Mbulu,
John Lydon,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Blossom Toes,
Magazine,
Robert Hood,
Isaac Hayes,
The Grass Roots,
Oneida,
Cybotron,
Kenny Larkin,
The Martian,
Babytalk,
The Human League,
Surgeon,
Gil Scott Heron,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Adolescents,
Boredoms,
KRS-One,
L. Decosne,
Scratch Acid,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Techniques,
Alison Limerick,
Black Bananas,
the Association,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Knickerbockers,
Joe Smooth,
This Heat,
Cameo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Sister Nancy,
Johnny Clarke,
Derrick Morgan,
The Cowsills,
Heaven 17,
Silicon Teens,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.