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 Slovenia and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and London.
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 guitar 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 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark to the dance 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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Jerry's Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Terrestrial Tones 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sugar Minott record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
MDC,
Tomorrow,
Ronan,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
T. Rex,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Country Teasers,
Ultra Naté,
The Move,
David Axelrod,
Blossom Toes,
Neu!,
Fear,
Lower 48,
Todd Rundgren,
The Young Rascals,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Knickerbockers,
Khruangbin,
Skaos,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Maurizio,
Model 500,
Clear Light,
FM Einheit,
Sarah Menescal,
Swans,
Flash Fearless,
Leonard Cohen,
Eric Dolphy,
Von Mondo,
The Slits,
the Bar-Kays,
Index,
June Days,
Wings,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Alison Limerick,
Boz Scaggs,
Ice-T,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Albert Ayler,
The Offenders,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sparks,
Royal Trux,
Easy Going,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Audionom,
Joensuu 1685,
Stiv Bators,
UT,
Black Bananas,
Animal Collective,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Marmalade,
Cybotron,
Roy Ayers,
Jesper Dahlback,
Shoche,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.