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 Mauritius and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 David Bowie 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 10cc to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 John Foxx. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every New Order 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
Nirvana,
Neu!,
The Misunderstood,
Dark Day,
F. McDonald,
The Fuzztones,
Eric Dolphy,
David Bowie,
Kayak,
Dave Gahan,
Bauhaus,
The Human League,
Brick,
the Swans,
Carl Craig,
Gichy Dan,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
DJ Sneak,
Arab on Radar,
Country Joe & The Fish,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Names,
Reuben Wilson,
Altered Images,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Adolescents,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Doors,
Pierre Henry,
Sun City Girls,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Cybotron,
Derrick Morgan,
Max Romeo,
Robert Wyatt,
Albert Ayler,
Bizarre Inc.,
Maleditus Sound,
Joe Smooth,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Intrusion,
Porter Ricks,
Jerry's Kids,
Juan Atkins,
Black Flag,
Sarah Menescal,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Theoretical Girls,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lucky Dragons,
Vladislav Delay,
Simply Red,
L. Decosne,
Absolute Body Control,
In Retrospect,
Arthur Verocai,
Pussy Galore,
Robert Hood,
Deakin,
Radiopuhelimet,
Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water, Trumans Water.
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.