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 Nicaragua and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Portland.
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 808 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 Freddie Wadling to the jazz 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 Warren Ellis. All the underground hits.
All the Normal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every LL Cool J record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tres Demented record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jimmy McGriff,
Iggy Pop,
John Cale,
X-Ray Spex,
Whodini,
Half Japanese,
Kool Moe Dee,
Big Daddy Kane,
Marmalade,
Black Pus,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
EPMD,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Gang Green,
New York Dolls,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Zapp,
Delta 5,
The Motions,
Rod Modell,
The Trojans,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Associates,
The Black Dice,
Ultimate Spinach,
the Soft Cell,
Harpers Bizarre,
Kayak,
Nirvana,
Johnny Clarke,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Tremeloes,
Suburban Knight,
Susan Cadogan,
Zero Boys,
Banda Bassotti,
Section 25,
Todd Terry,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Technova,
The Smiths,
Avey Tare,
Harmonia,
Cybotron,
LL Cool J,
UT,
Lou Reed,
Sun Ra,
X-102,
Aloha Tigers,
Black Moon,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The Electric Prunes,
Country Teasers,
Neil Young,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Birthday Party,
Bobby Byrd,
Jeff Lynne,
Skriet,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.