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 Ireland and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Goldenarms to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Television Personalities,
Minnie Riperton,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jacob Miller,
The Modern Lovers,
Jawbox,
In Retrospect,
Scion,
Man Eating Sloth,
Donny Hathaway,
Albert Ayler,
Absolute Body Control,
Sly & The Family Stone,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Index,
Oneida,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Barry Ungar,
Eric Copeland,
The Techniques,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Gap Band,
Hoover,
DNA,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Derrick May,
The Black Dice,
The Evens,
Aaron Thompson,
Deepchord,
Ludus,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Selecter,
Crime,
Reuben Wilson,
Joensuu 1685,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
ABBA,
Aloha Tigers,
Sex Pistols,
The Moleskins,
Country Teasers,
Altered Images,
Section 25,
Con Funk Shun,
Kayak,
X-102,
The Smiths,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Letta Mbulu,
F. McDonald,
The Index,
Skarface,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Frankie Knuckles,
Crispian St. Peters,
Terrestrial Tones,
Andrew Hill,
the Normal,
Pagans,
The Moody Blues,
Skriet, Skriet, Skriet, Skriet.
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.