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 Antigua and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 The Associates to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Pylon. All the underground hits.
All Bill Near tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Louis and Bebe Barron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Gichy Dan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gerry Rafferty,
Stiv Bators,
La Düsseldorf,
Fugazi,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jeff Lynne,
Fela Kuti,
CMW,
Severed Heads,
The Velvet Underground,
Maurizio,
Bluetip,
Make Up,
Matthew Halsall,
Theoretical Girls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The J.B.'s,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Intrusion,
The Gap Band,
The Smiths,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bronski Beat,
Gang Starr,
Sixth Finger,
Yaz,
Todd Rundgren,
The Young Rascals,
John Cale,
Gastr Del Sol,
Loose Ends,
Sex Pistols,
Piero Umiliani,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Easy Going,
Cheater Slicks,
Massinfluence,
Eric Dolphy,
Curtis Mayfield,
The Black Dice,
Aural Exciters,
Lungfish,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fortunes,
LL Cool J,
Faust,
Crispy Ambulance,
Mad Mike,
Wings,
Sarah Menescal,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Vainqueur,
Second Layer,
Soft Cell,
Pere Ubu,
The Modern Lovers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Lizzy Mercier Descloux.
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.