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 Netherlands and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the 808 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 Piero Umiliani to the rock 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All Fifty Foot Hose tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Circle Jerks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
Pagans,
Danielle Patucci,
Jeff Lynne,
Lightning Bolt,
Nik Kershaw,
Pere Ubu,
Todd Rundgren,
Robert Görl,
Gastr Del Sol,
Nirvana,
The Young Rascals,
The Velvet Underground,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dawn Penn,
Pussy Galore,
Malaria!,
Michelle Simonal,
Minutemen,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Silicon Teens,
The Selecter,
Robert Wyatt,
Boogie Down Productions,
Interpol,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Glambeats Corp.,
Blancmange,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
the Germs,
Ultravox,
Wasted Youth,
Derrick Morgan,
R.M.O.,
Nils Olav,
Eric B and Rakim,
Public Image Ltd.,
Nico,
Deakin,
Ludus,
Eve St. Jones,
Rakim,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Essential Logic,
Joey Negro,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kevin Saunderson,
Bobby Womack,
F. McDonald,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Ohio Players,
Pylon,
Oneida,
Eli Mardock,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Albert Ayler,
Fluxion,
Minnie Riperton,
The Remains,
Roxy Music,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.