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 Turkmenistan and from Bremen.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Gang Green to the rock kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Matthew Bourne tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Neon Judgement record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Little Man,
Big Daddy Kane,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Reagan Youth,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Pet Shop Boys,
cv313,
Byron Stingily,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
L. Decosne,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Mojo Men,
Drexciya,
The Index,
Grandmaster Flash,
Supertramp,
Jeff Lynne,
Jawbox,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Five Americans,
Charles Mingus,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Man Eating Sloth,
the Human League,
Marine Girls,
Surgeon,
Blancmange,
Bootsy Collins,
Aural Exciters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sonny Sharrock,
Eurythmics,
Cymande,
Trumans Water,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Eric Copeland,
Circle Jerks,
The Knickerbockers,
Eric Dolphy,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Buzzcocks,
Robert Görl,
Kool Moe Dee,
Nico,
Symarip,
CMW,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Blake Baxter,
Idris Muhammad,
Dave Gahan,
Brand Nubian,
Angry Samoans,
Yaz,
Bill Near,
Faraquet,
In Retrospect,
Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon, Peter & Gordon.
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.