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 Togo and from Bologna.
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 1966 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Dead Boys to the grunge 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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Patti Smith tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Blancmange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gladiators,
Isaac Hayes,
The Mummies,
The Durutti Column,
Jawbox,
Bad Manners,
Derrick Morgan,
Sonic Youth,
Shuggie Otis,
Rapeman,
Sugar Minott,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Black Flag,
Newcleus,
The Fuzztones,
Jerry Gold Smith,
LL Cool J,
Lou Reed,
Simply Red,
10cc,
L. Decosne,
Camberwell Now,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Evens,
Infiniti,
Deepchord,
Joy Division,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Human League,
Fad Gadget,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Wings,
Rosa Yemen,
Matthew Halsall,
Pierre Henry,
The Modern Lovers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Black Pus,
World's Most,
Drexciya,
Underground Resistance,
Kerri Chandler,
Stetsasonic,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Half Japanese,
Cecil Taylor,
Saccharine Trust,
The Wake,
The Velvet Underground,
Swans,
the Fania All-Stars,
Jacques Brel,
Fluxion,
Groovy Waters,
The Selecter,
Bush Tetras,
Peter & Gordon,
The Birthday Party,
This Heat,
Sandy B,
Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett, Steve Hackett.
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.