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 Vietnam and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Swell Maps to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Supertramp. All the underground hits.
All Cluster tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Selector Dub Narcotic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
James White and The Blacks,
Terrestrial Tones,
Ohio Players,
David McCallum,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Black Dice,
Royal Trux,
Skaos,
Bobby Womack,
Boredoms,
Crash Course in Science,
Dave Gahan,
Average White Band,
Can,
The Birthday Party,
Max Romeo,
The Moody Blues,
Monolake,
Derrick May,
Gastr Del Sol,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Janne Schatter,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Judy Mowatt,
Babytalk,
This Heat,
Boz Scaggs,
The Martian,
Big Daddy Kane,
Patti Smith,
Steve Hackett,
Absolute Body Control,
Altered Images,
Jawbox,
Crooked Eye,
Nico,
Camouflage,
Spoonie Gee,
Jimmy McGriff,
Stereo Dub,
Alison Limerick,
Andrew Hill,
The Gun Club,
Ultravox,
Wasted Youth,
Section 25,
The United States of America,
Magma,
Scion,
Yaz,
Bluetip,
Minutemen,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Howard Jones,
Althea and Donna,
Erykah Badu,
One Last Wish,
Arthur Verocai,
Suburban Knight,
Sparks,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Colin Newman,
Letta Mbulu,
The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers, The Knickerbockers.
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.