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 Syria and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1963 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Winnipeg.
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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Lee Hazlewood to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Metal Thangz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yellowson 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Vainqueur record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Basic Channel,
Skriet,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Hardrive,
Index,
Amon Düül II,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Stiv Bators,
The Fuzztones,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Audionom,
Underground Resistance,
R.M.O.,
Dead Boys,
New Order,
the Soft Cell,
Kas Product,
Can,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Soft Cell,
Black Pus,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Nick Fraelich,
Brick,
The Gap Band,
Oneida,
Glenn Branca,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Todd Rundgren,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lungfish,
Public Image Ltd.,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Blake Baxter,
Silicon Teens,
Vainqueur,
Isaac Hayes,
Ossler,
Chrome,
Flash Fearless,
Babytalk,
Porter Ricks,
Excepter,
Agitation Free,
Bobby Byrd,
Bad Manners,
Sonic Youth,
Tommy Roe,
Quando Quango,
Slick Rick,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Bootsy Collins,
Tubeway Army,
Masters at Work,
Moebius,
Todd Terry,
Max Romeo,
Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion, Intrusion.
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.