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 Denmark and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 snare 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 Delon & Dalcan to the dance 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 Blake Baxter. All the underground hits.
All a-ha tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Walker Brothers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tears for Fears,
Guru Guru,
Depeche Mode,
Magma,
Sun City Girls,
One Last Wish,
Delon & Dalcan,
Funkadelic,
The Human League,
Brick,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Newcleus,
Eli Mardock,
The Slits,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Parry Music,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Faraquet,
Lungfish,
Ludus,
Albert Ayler,
Jeru the Damaja,
Archie Shepp,
the Bar-Kays,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Cure,
Bush Tetras,
Infiniti,
Fluxion,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sun Ra,
Barclay James Harvest,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Alarm Clocks,
Japan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Unwound,
ABC,
Jandek,
Eddi Front,
Bill Wells,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Scrapy,
Brothers Johnson,
Swell Maps,
Blossom Toes,
Moss Icon,
Fad Gadget,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Blues Magoos,
Bob Dylan,
Tommy Roe,
Peter & Gordon,
Flipper,
Ultravox,
the Slits,
China Crisis,
Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire, Cabaret Voltaire.
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.