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 Indonesia and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 Captain Beefheart 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 JFA to the funk 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 Half Japanese. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lonnie Liston Smith record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Divine Comedy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Duran Duran,
Pantytec,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jawbox,
Jeru the Damaja,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Moody Blues,
Leonard Cohen,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Tres Demented,
Dave Gahan,
JFA,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Grauzone,
Henry Cow,
Lebanon Hanover,
Theoretical Girls,
Arthur Verocai,
James White and The Blacks,
Toni Rubio,
Sun City Girls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Cal Tjader,
Yusef Lateef,
Ossler,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Au Pairs,
The Young Rascals,
DJ Sneak,
Kerri Chandler,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Ten City,
Camouflage,
Joy Division,
Malaria!,
Harry Pussy,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Peter & Gordon,
The Busters,
Eve St. Jones,
Lower 48,
Sixth Finger,
Minny Pops,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Fire Engines,
Unwound,
Pierre Henry,
Reuben Wilson,
Wolf Eyes,
Little Man,
Ponytail,
The Smoke,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Wire,
Fear,
Lightning Bolt,
Eric Copeland,
Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra, Sun Ra.
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.