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 Norway and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo. All the underground hits.
All Richard Hell and the Voidoids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Girls At Our Best! 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Steve Hackett,
Ossler,
Bootsy Collins,
Bluetip,
Absolute Body Control,
K-Klass,
the Slits,
Gong,
Iggy Pop,
MC5,
Theoretical Girls,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Archie Shepp,
Surgeon,
Soft Machine,
Aural Exciters,
Agitation Free,
The Moody Blues,
Mr. Review,
Curtis Mayfield,
Fad Gadget,
Quadrant,
Von Mondo,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eli Mardock,
Erykah Badu,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Nils Olav,
Ronnie Foster,
China Crisis,
Tres Demented,
Section 25,
Young Marble Giants,
The Wake,
Minnie Riperton,
Skaos,
John Coltrane,
Amon Düül,
Alison Limerick,
Albert Ayler,
Quando Quango,
The Evens,
Jeff Mills,
Schoolly D,
The Mojo Men,
Ponytail,
DJ Style,
Sarah Menescal,
Boredoms,
Mandrill,
The Neon Judgement,
Shoche,
Rhythm & Sound,
Lungfish,
Dead Boys,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Todd Terry,
Joensuu 1685,
Marshall Jefferson,
David Bowie,
Parry Music,
Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls, Sun City Girls.
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.