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 Portugal and from Delhi.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 OOIOO to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Pretty Things. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ohio Players record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Angels of Light & Akron/Family record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Saccharine Trust,
B.T. Express,
Pagans,
The Neon Judgement,
Aural Exciters,
The Associates,
In Retrospect,
Royal Trux,
Deepchord,
Marshall Jefferson,
David Axelrod,
Bauhaus,
Adolescents,
R.M.O.,
Wire,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Henry Cow,
Cluster,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Ossler,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Rites of Spring,
Tom Boy,
Technova,
Organ,
Lyres,
The Fire Engines,
Soft Machine,
X-Ray Spex,
Big Daddy Kane,
Q and Not U,
Khruangbin,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Ice-T,
Popol Vuh,
Panda Bear,
Boogie Down Productions,
Talk Talk,
Massinfluence,
Surgeon,
Rhythm & Sound,
Schoolly D,
Boredoms,
La Düsseldorf,
John Coltrane,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Swell Maps,
Patti Smith,
Brick,
Soul II Soul,
Nils Olav,
New Order,
Lightning Bolt,
Ultravox,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Banda Bassotti,
Sun City Girls,
Stetsasonic,
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.