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 Qatar and from Tehran.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Morten Harket to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Sex Pistols. All the underground hits.
All Flamin' Groovies tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Godley & Creme 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Trumans Water 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?
Warren Ellis,
The Modern Lovers,
Carl Craig,
Scott Walker,
The Stooges,
Rotary Connection,
Outsiders,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Happenings,
Flash Fearless,
Nas,
Godley & Creme,
The Gories,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Divine Comedy,
Little Man,
The Saints,
Sight & Sound,
The Searchers,
48th St. Collective,
Delon & Dalcan,
Stockholm Monsters,
Schoolly D,
Swans,
Colin Newman,
Silicon Teens,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Unrelated Segments,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Fuzztones,
The Slackers,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Walker Brothers,
Dark Day,
Aloha Tigers,
John Lydon,
Cymande,
Albert Ayler,
Fugazi,
The Velvet Underground,
Chris Corsano,
John Coltrane,
Au Pairs,
Thee Headcoats,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Pulsallama,
Wally Richardson,
Crispy Ambulance,
kango's stein massive,
The Techniques,
Brand Nubian,
The Cramps,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Flipper,
Sarah Menescal,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Pierre Henry,
Saccharine Trust,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.