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 Macedonia and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Arcadia to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic. All the underground hits.
All Strawberry Alarm Clock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Newcleus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Buckinghams,
Camberwell Now,
Technova,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Massinfluence,
Hoover,
CMW,
Deadbeat,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Simply Red,
The Evens,
Easy Going,
Godley & Creme,
Bill Wells,
The Durutti Column,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Vogues,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Pet Shop Boys,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Average White Band,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rites of Spring,
Joensuu 1685,
Flipper,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Joey Negro,
Colin Newman,
The Smiths,
Minutemen,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Gabor Szabo,
Lightning Bolt,
Inner City,
Traffic Nightmare,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Brick,
Ornette Coleman,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fugazi,
Soft Machine,
Skaos,
The Seeds,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Jawbox,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Busters,
Television Personalities,
Charles Mingus,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Pulsallama,
Dark Day,
Soft Cell,
Arcadia,
The Doobie Brothers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.