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 Chad and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 güiro 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 Silicon Teens to the grime kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Pet Shop Boys. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dead C record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 güiro and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Todd Rundgren,
Hardrive,
Crime,
The Techniques,
Lalo Schifrin,
Spandau Ballet,
Kayak,
Can,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rotary Connection,
Graham Central Station,
Eli Mardock,
Reagan Youth,
Basic Channel,
The Durutti Column,
Sister Nancy,
Lyres,
Sixth Finger,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Eden Ahbez,
Blake Baxter,
F. McDonald,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Mantronix,
Altered Images,
Glambeats Corp.,
Connie Case,
Wings,
A Certain Ratio,
Crooked Eye,
the Swans,
Junior Murvin,
The Kinks,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Fuzztones,
Jandek,
Bobby Byrd,
the Fania All-Stars,
Bobby Sherman,
Cheater Slicks,
KRS-One,
Ponytail,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Bar-Kays,
Saccharine Trust,
H. Thieme,
Vainqueur,
Soft Machine,
Eric B and Rakim,
DJ Sneak,
Barclay James Harvest,
Thompson Twins,
Joy Division,
Leonard Cohen,
Q65,
Fugazi,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sight & Sound,
Rosa Yemen,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Jeff Lynne,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.