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 Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 oboe 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 Kango’s Stein Massive to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Hutcherson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 an arpeggiator and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Q and Not U record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
Bizarre Inc.,
Pussy Galore,
ABBA,
The Beau Brummels,
Joe Smooth,
Simply Red,
Magazine,
Aaron Thompson,
Scientists,
Alphaville,
Colin Newman,
Malaria!,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sun City Girls,
The Names,
Eric Copeland,
Scrapy,
B.T. Express,
Infiniti,
The Birthday Party,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Interpol,
Thompson Twins,
Joensuu 1685,
Symarip,
The Remains,
The Durutti Column,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eddi Front,
Patti Smith,
Jawbox,
Arthur Verocai,
The Litter,
U.S. Maple,
Cameo,
Kool Moe Dee,
Smog,
The Seeds,
Joey Negro,
Darondo,
the Slits,
Soul Sonic Force,
Grandmaster Flash,
Roger Hodgson,
Television,
Newcleus,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Jeru the Damaja,
Amon Düül II,
The Techniques,
Marvin Gaye,
The Red Krayola,
Blancmange,
Sexual Harrassment,
Junior Murvin,
Pierre Henry,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jerry Gold Smith,
John Lydon,
The Vogues,
David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie, David Bowie.
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.