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 Kuwait and from Bologna.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Hasil Adkins to the funk 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Suicide record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Inner City,
Rufus Thomas,
Theoretical Girls,
The Cowsills,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Dawn Penn,
Gregory Isaacs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Procol Harum,
June Days,
Bobby Byrd,
The Alarm Clocks,
Dead Boys,
Reuben Wilson,
The Detroit Cobras,
Sparks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Wolf Eyes,
Albert Ayler,
The Seeds,
Flash Fearless,
Joe Finger,
ABBA,
Prince Buster,
Los Fastidios,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Fire Engines,
Warsaw,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Modern Lovers,
Minor Threat,
The Techniques,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Barrington Levy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Ultimate Spinach,
James White and The Blacks,
Rod Modell,
Interpol,
Donald Byrd,
Aaron Thompson,
8 Eyed Spy,
Sound Behaviour,
Howard Jones,
The Zeros,
Ralphi Rosario,
Rotary Connection,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Quantec,
Neu!,
Lyres,
The Busters,
The Evens,
Technova,
Oblivians,
Janne Schatter,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Wake,
Jacob Miller,
U.S. Maple,
The Litter, The Litter, The Litter, The Litter.
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.