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 Gabon and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Copenhagen.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Eurythmics to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Busters. All the underground hits.
All Tomorrow tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Jesus and Mary Chain record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Jerry's Kids,
T. Rex,
Drive Like Jehu,
The Golliwogs,
Young Marble Giants,
The Blues Magoos,
Mo-Dettes,
Peter & Gordon,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Invisible,
Kurtis Blow,
the Slits,
8 Eyed Spy,
Tommy Roe,
Dave Gahan,
Rekid,
Derrick May,
Wasted Youth,
Neu!,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
the Soft Cell,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Dead C,
Ultravox,
U.S. Maple,
Eurythmics,
The Misunderstood,
The Mummies,
Arab on Radar,
Simply Red,
Fugazi,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Birthday Party,
Boz Scaggs,
Von Mondo,
Tom Boy,
Gregory Isaacs,
Shuggie Otis,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Standells,
Faraquet,
Gang of Four,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
ABC,
Oblivians,
Grandmaster Flash,
Smog,
The Gories,
Black Bananas,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Neon Judgement,
Pagans,
MDC,
Black Sheep,
Alphaville,
The Gap Band,
Frankie Knuckles,
Eric Dolphy,
Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy, Scrapy.
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.