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 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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 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 The Royal Family And The Poor to the dance 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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Harmonia tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rahsaan Roland Kirk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kas Product,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ralphi Rosario,
Black Bananas,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Busters,
Howard Jones,
The Knickerbockers,
Q and Not U,
Jeru the Damaja,
Joy Division,
The Mojo Men,
Marvin Gaye,
E-Dancer,
Tears for Fears,
Loose Ends,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Chris & Cosey,
The Searchers,
The Doors,
Juan Atkins,
Minnie Riperton,
Soulsonic Force,
Camouflage,
Dark Day,
Tommy Roe,
Roger Hodgson,
Vladislav Delay,
Throbbing Gristle,
Joe Smooth,
Sun Ra,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The United States of America,
Leonard Cohen,
Basic Channel,
MC5,
John Lydon,
The Five Americans,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Buckinghams,
Silicon Teens,
Lebanon Hanover,
Bob Dylan,
Index,
B.T. Express,
June of 44,
Harmonia,
Siglo XX,
Sound Behaviour,
Black Pus,
Sister Nancy,
The Stooges,
8 Eyed Spy,
Ultimate Spinach,
Hardrive,
Todd Terry,
Absolute Body Control,
Scan 7,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.