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 Croatia and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 guitar 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 The Sound to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 DeepChord presents Echospace. All the underground hits.
All Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag 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 a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Shadows of Knight,
Howard Jones,
In Retrospect,
The Young Rascals,
Lyres,
Ash Ra Tempel,
R.M.O.,
The Mummies,
Goldenarms,
Rakim,
John Lydon,
Moebius,
Minutemen,
June of 44,
Newcleus,
Theoretical Girls,
Chris & Cosey,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Angry Samoans,
The Vogues,
Youth Brigade,
Byron Stingily,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Y Pants,
The Mojo Men,
Silicon Teens,
X-101,
Robert Wyatt,
Underground Resistance,
Barrington Levy,
Agitation Free,
the Sonics,
This Heat,
Pantaleimon,
the Bar-Kays,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lebanon Hanover,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Flipper,
Zero Boys,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Litter,
Bronski Beat,
the Normal,
Delon & Dalcan,
Morten Harket,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Black Pus,
The Count Five,
T. Rex,
Jandek,
Scrapy,
Mary Jane Girls,
Kaleidoscope,
Simply Red,
ABBA,
The Blues Magoos,
Robert Hood,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Little Man,
Janne Schatter,
The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set, The Monochrome Set.
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.