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 Monaco and from Lille.
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 1968 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 chamberlin 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 Faraquet to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Q and Not U tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dead Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Velvet Underground,
Brass Construction,
Can,
Absolute Body Control,
Pagans,
Bobby Sherman,
Alice Coltrane,
Faust,
The Five Americans,
48th St. Collective,
Toni Rubio,
Mantronix,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Moebius,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
LL Cool J,
Nick Fraelich,
the Swans,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rapeman,
The Names,
Grandmaster Flash,
the Human League,
Gang Green,
Sällskapet,
Crispy Ambulance,
Japan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gil Scott Heron,
Eric Dolphy,
Henry Cow,
Smog,
Ludus,
UT,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Blackbyrds,
Dark Day,
Lightning Bolt,
Wasted Youth,
Eve St. Jones,
Ultimate Spinach,
Spandau Ballet,
Tomorrow,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Hasil Adkins,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Smoke,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Scott Walker,
Sex Pistols,
Lucky Dragons,
Inner City,
Rufus Thomas,
the Germs,
Rekid,
Pantytec,
The Cure,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.