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 Yemen and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 OOIOO to the electroclash 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 The Trojans. All the underground hits.
All Sonic Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Absolute Body Control record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Byron Stingily record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Lucky Dragons,
Brand Nubian,
Aaron Thompson,
Bang On A Can,
The Invisible,
The Residents,
Technova,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Barracudas,
Black Sheep,
H. Thieme,
Sight & Sound,
David Bowie,
Trumans Water,
Tropical Tobacco,
Anakelly,
Pagans,
Zapp,
John Cale,
X-102,
Simply Red,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Liliput,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Victims,
Nico,
Flamin' Groovies,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Freddie Wadling,
New Age Steppers,
Arcadia,
Tim Buckley,
Circle Jerks,
ABC,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lakeside,
The Tremeloes,
Sparks,
Rosa Yemen,
U.S. Maple,
Camouflage,
Adolescents,
Model 500,
Ten City,
Yazoo,
Toni Rubio,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Funkadelic,
Gong,
Infiniti,
Kaleidoscope,
Lower 48,
T.S.O.L.,
Soul Sonic Force,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Tubeway Army,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jandek,
Boz Scaggs,
Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc., Bizarre Inc..
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.