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 Bosnia Herzegovina 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the disco kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Bill Wells. All the underground hits.
All Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Metal Thangz 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rapeman,
the Normal,
Gong,
Lee Hazlewood,
New York Dolls,
Rites of Spring,
Erasure,
The Angels of Light,
Von Mondo,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Supertramp,
Moebius,
the Association,
Talk Talk,
Intrusion,
Johnny Clarke,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Skriet,
The Stooges,
Todd Rundgren,
the Soft Cell,
Deakin,
Blancmange,
Reuben Wilson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Cybotron,
Anthony Braxton,
Lou Christie,
Easy Going,
Sam Rivers,
Pharoah Sanders,
Terry Callier,
Pylon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hardrive,
Silicon Teens,
Kas Product,
Accadde A,
Eden Ahbez,
Funkadelic,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Matthew Halsall,
Gang Gang Dance,
Jacques Brel,
Marc Almond,
The Fortunes,
Aaron Thompson,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Crime,
Saccharine Trust,
Swans,
Dorothy Ashby,
Au Pairs,
Dave Gahan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Radio Birdman,
Warren Ellis,
Zapp,
Nirvana,
Motorama,
Mars,
Kayak, Kayak, Kayak, Kayak.
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.