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 Paris.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Wire to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 ABBA. All the underground hits.
All Little Man tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 spring reverb and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pere Ubu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator 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?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Skatalites,
Soulsonic Force,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Rod Modell,
The Slackers,
Agitation Free,
Marine Girls,
Gichy Dan,
Flash Fearless,
Boredoms,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Crime,
Joy Division,
The Associates,
The Selecter,
Roxette,
the Sonics,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Banda Bassotti,
Minor Threat,
Dave Gahan,
The Trojans,
Robert Görl,
Television,
Niagra,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Zapp,
AZ,
Groovy Waters,
Ossler,
The Count Five,
Chris & Cosey,
The Raincoats,
The Evens,
Soft Cell,
Idris Muhammad,
The Velvet Underground,
The Mojo Men,
Barbara Tucker,
Yazoo,
The Monks,
John Cale,
the Germs,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Junior Murvin,
Fluxion,
David McCallum,
Minutemen,
Camouflage,
Monolake,
Newcleus,
L. Decosne,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Big Daddy Kane,
Desert Stars,
The Sound,
Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks, Buzzcocks.
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.