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 Fiji and from Mumbai.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 snare 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 Joe Smooth to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Blues Magoos. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat 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 theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Theoretical Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cluster,
Skriet,
The Gap Band,
Drive Like Jehu,
U.S. Maple,
Moebius,
the Association,
Bizarre Inc.,
Chris Corsano,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Eddi Front,
The Walker Brothers,
Dave Gahan,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lee Hazlewood,
Buzzcocks,
Yusef Lateef,
The Remains,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Nirvana,
DNA,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Motions,
Skaos,
Scan 7,
The Searchers,
Arthur Verocai,
Eden Ahbez,
Boredoms,
Aswad,
Half Japanese,
Robert Görl,
the Soft Cell,
Ultravox,
The Selecter,
cv313,
Easy Going,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Alison Limerick,
The Modern Lovers,
Lou Christie,
Sugar Minott,
Silicon Teens,
David McCallum,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Aaron Thompson,
The Red Krayola,
Freddie Wadling,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Dual Sessions,
The Blues Magoos,
Supertramp,
David Axelrod,
Sun City Girls,
Soul II Soul,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Todd Rundgren,
The Cowsills,
Barbara Tucker,
Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay, Vladislav Delay.
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.