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 Spain and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Au Pairs to the dance 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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Lonnie Liston Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Intrusion,
The Happenings,
Bill Wells,
Second Layer,
Sight & Sound,
Gerry Rafferty,
Glenn Branca,
Negative Approach,
Anakelly,
Buzzcocks,
Stereo Dub,
Bob Dylan,
Wally Richardson,
Shuggie Otis,
The Names,
Robert Wyatt,
Piero Umiliani,
Sugar Minott,
Neu!,
Malaria!,
Chris & Cosey,
John Cale,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Surgeon,
Terry Callier,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Eurythmics,
Kayak,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Drexciya,
Sparks,
John Foxx,
Donny Hathaway,
Laurel Aitken,
Bad Manners,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Mummies,
The Young Rascals,
T. Rex,
Panda Bear,
Cheater Slicks,
The Dave Clark Five,
Mr. Review,
Agitation Free,
The Kinks,
The Count Five,
JFA,
One Last Wish,
The Fortunes,
Nirvana,
Deepchord,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Pet Shop Boys,
Hot Snakes,
Q65,
Absolute Body Control,
Boredoms,
Althea and Donna,
Joe Smooth,
Motorama,
Talk Talk,
Lower 48,
Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico.
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.