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 Equatorial Guinea and from Lagos.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Tomorrow to the rock 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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minutemen,
The Cure,
Dual Sessions,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Gap Band,
The Black Dice,
The Fugs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Durutti Column,
the Association,
Altered Images,
Pet Shop Boys,
Deepchord,
Angry Samoans,
Sex Pistols,
Can,
8 Eyed Spy,
Tom Boy,
Eddi Front,
Henry Cow,
Fear,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ralphi Rosario,
The J.B.'s,
Echospace,
Johnny Osbourne,
Cheater Slicks,
Mantronix,
Grey Daturas,
Bang On A Can,
Prince Buster,
Don Cherry,
Moss Icon,
Theoretical Girls,
Cecil Taylor,
Ponytail,
Flipper,
Jeff Mills,
Outsiders,
Derrick Morgan,
Schoolly D,
Wings,
Dennis Brown,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Tres Demented,
T.S.O.L.,
the Germs,
Leonard Cohen,
Boogie Down Productions,
Von Mondo,
Sällskapet,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Porter Ricks,
Make Up,
The Knickerbockers,
Pylon,
The Motions,
Zapp,
Q65,
Suicide,
The Misunderstood,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.