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 Malaysia and from Manila.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
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 Peter & Gordon to the funk 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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Peter and Kerry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Vogues record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dorothy Ashby,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
John Holt,
Reagan Youth,
T. Rex,
Excepter,
Can,
Sun City Girls,
Schoolly D,
Fluxion,
The Skatalites,
Neil Young,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Minor Threat,
Wally Richardson,
Danielle Patucci,
Erykah Badu,
Ornette Coleman,
the Slits,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
cv313,
The Gladiators,
Minnie Riperton,
Angry Samoans,
Arab on Radar,
Accadde A,
Avey Tare,
Soul II Soul,
Kool Moe Dee,
Desert Stars,
Youth Brigade,
Ultra Naté,
Drexciya,
Black Pus,
Patti Smith,
Eric Dolphy,
Maleditus Sound,
Silicon Teens,
Kerrie Biddell,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Sixth Finger,
Underground Resistance,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Erasure,
A Certain Ratio,
The Human League,
PIL,
Joy Division,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
OOIOO,
The Slits,
Banda Bassotti,
Gerry Rafferty,
Goldenarms,
Johnny Osbourne,
Cecil Taylor,
Parry Music,
Marvin Gaye,
Davy DMX,
Rapeman,
Liliput,
Glambeats Corp.,
Duran Duran,
Grandmaster Flash,
Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane, Big Daddy Kane.
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.