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 Kenya and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 linndrum 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 Crime to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 a-ha. All the underground hits.
All Black Bananas tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Barracudas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Q and Not U,
Royal Trux,
Rapeman,
Scratch Acid,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Boredoms,
Au Pairs,
X-102,
Metal Thangz,
Johnny Clarke,
E-Dancer,
John Holt,
DNA,
Lower 48,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Matthew Bourne,
Neu!,
Josef K,
Eric Copeland,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Joy Division,
Patti Smith,
June of 44,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Cheater Slicks,
Dennis Brown,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kaleidoscope,
Crime,
The Gap Band,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Electric Prunes,
Pylon,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gang Starr,
Delon & Dalcan,
New York Dolls,
Brand Nubian,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Jawbox,
Chrome,
Black Moon,
Ultimate Spinach,
Goldenarms,
Gastr Del Sol,
Blossom Toes,
Max Romeo,
The Slackers,
Spandau Ballet,
June Days,
Fat Boys,
The Raincoats,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Angry Samoans,
The Red Krayola,
Groovy Waters,
Erasure,
The Slits,
Vladislav Delay,
Skriet,
Charles Mingus,
The Doors,
The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department.
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.