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 Uganda and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Jesus and Mary Chain to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Intrusion. All the underground hits.
All La Düsseldorf tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Human League 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 marimba and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Mission of Burma,
The Shadows of Knight,
Mad Mike,
Blancmange,
Nico,
The Mummies,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Au Pairs,
Drive Like Jehu,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Jacob Miller,
Von Mondo,
Young Marble Giants,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Grass Roots,
Agitation Free,
Oblivians,
Unwound,
The Toasters,
Blake Baxter,
Heaven 17,
Malaria!,
Procol Harum,
Crash Course in Science,
Kayak,
Pagans,
Peter and Kerry,
Rosa Yemen,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
June of 44,
Alphaville,
The Modern Lovers,
Letta Mbulu,
Scott Walker,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Suburban Knight,
Cameo,
Flipper,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Gerry Rafferty,
Josef K,
Pussy Galore,
Moby Grape,
Fela Kuti,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Clear Light,
Chrome,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Gang Starr,
The Move,
Camberwell Now,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
FM Einheit,
Con Funk Shun,
Deepchord,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Dave Clark Five,
Stiv Bators,
Boogie Down Productions,
Joe Smooth,
Suicide,
Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster, Ronnie Foster.
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.