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 Bulgaria and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Mumbai.
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 chamberlin 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 Toni Rubio to the grime 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 Henry Cow. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gichy Dan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Angry Samoans,
Gang Green,
Roxette,
Dennis Brown,
Cymande,
Con Funk Shun,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Beau Brummels,
Donald Byrd,
Bobby Sherman,
Ultravox,
Infiniti,
The Gories,
Brick,
Radiohead,
Goldenarms,
The Victims,
The Wake,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Ituana,
Sparks,
Ossler,
Arthur Verocai,
Quantec,
Joey Negro,
Erykah Badu,
Black Flag,
Technova,
Kas Product,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Thompson Twins,
Blancmange,
John Foxx,
Johnny Osbourne,
K-Klass,
Aural Exciters,
Kaleidoscope,
Motorama,
The Five Americans,
The Music Machine,
The Walker Brothers,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Moss Icon,
Index,
Young Marble Giants,
Mantronix,
The Last Poets,
Rod Modell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Stockholm Monsters,
Terry Callier,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Monks,
Barbara Tucker,
Sonic Youth,
The Gun Club,
CMW,
Amon Düül,
Junior Murvin,
KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One, KRS-One.
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.