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 Eritrea and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 spring reverb 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 Fad Gadget to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Last Poets. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Moon 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Cure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Slave,
Nik Kershaw,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
New Age Steppers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Sister Nancy,
Yellowson,
David McCallum,
Rotary Connection,
Yusef Lateef,
Danielle Patucci,
Derrick Morgan,
Boz Scaggs,
Bizarre Inc.,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Kayak,
China Crisis,
Man Parrish,
Circle Jerks,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Young Rascals,
Soft Cell,
Theoretical Girls,
Negative Approach,
Marshall Jefferson,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Mandrill,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Minny Pops,
D'Angelo,
Joe Smooth,
Barclay James Harvest,
Oneida,
Section 25,
Cecil Taylor,
Gang of Four,
The Seeds,
Loose Ends,
Sexual Harrassment,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Sixth Finger,
Junior Murvin,
Scion,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ultra Naté,
Michelle Simonal,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bush Tetras,
Dark Day,
Traffic Nightmare,
Au Pairs,
Lucky Dragons,
Clear Light,
Agent Orange,
The Moody Blues,
Lindisfarne,
Pylon,
Eli Mardock,
the Germs,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Wings, Wings, Wings, Wings.
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.