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 Denmark and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 snare 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 Durutti Column to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Black Moon. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Howard Jones 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sarah Menescal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ornette Coleman,
Nico,
Groovy Waters,
Isaac Hayes,
The Mojo Men,
Excepter,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Saints,
Donny Hathaway,
Mars,
Agent Orange,
Brothers Johnson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Ludus,
The Cramps,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Tommy Roe,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Happenings,
Archie Shepp,
Vainqueur,
Althea and Donna,
Organ,
Swell Maps,
Thee Headcoats,
Country Teasers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sexual Harrassment,
Roxette,
Eric Copeland,
Babytalk,
The Cure,
The Move,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Gun Club,
In Retrospect,
L. Decosne,
The Victims,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
June Days,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Moleskins,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Susan Cadogan,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Oneida,
The J.B.'s,
The Electric Prunes,
Panda Bear,
Lee Hazlewood,
Scratch Acid,
Ohio Players,
John Holt,
Camberwell Now,
Chris Corsano,
Amon Düül II,
Rakim,
The Music Machine,
Duran Duran,
The Dirtbombs,
Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill, Mandrill.
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.