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 Laos and from Mexico City.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 sitar 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 Soulsonic Force to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All The Tremeloes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rod Modell,
Lakeside,
Grey Daturas,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Scan 7,
Funky Four + One,
Gastr Del Sol,
Minor Threat,
Jandek,
Bobby Byrd,
a-ha,
Sound Behaviour,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Skatalites,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Robert Hood,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Idris Muhammad,
Model 500,
World's Most,
the Association,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Drexciya,
Ludus,
Black Pus,
Stockholm Monsters,
Essential Logic,
Rufus Thomas,
Alice Coltrane,
Lou Reed,
Radio Birdman,
Liliput,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Bill Wells,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Peter & Gordon,
Ornette Coleman,
Stereo Dub,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Trojans,
Pet Shop Boys,
Dawn Penn,
Wolf Eyes,
8 Eyed Spy,
Godley & Creme,
Sugar Minott,
JFA,
The Neon Judgement,
Aural Exciters,
Don Cherry,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
PIL,
Hardrive,
Goldenarms,
Robert Görl,
Schoolly D,
Scott Walker,
Bluetip,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Cramps,
Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis, Warren Ellis.
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.