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 Botswana and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 The Birthday Party to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Rhythm & Sound. All the underground hits.
All Cybotron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Toni Rubio record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kerrie Biddell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Susan Cadogan,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Black Dice,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The J.B.'s,
Sparks,
Newcleus,
Colin Newman,
The Moleskins,
Jesper Dahlback,
The Moody Blues,
Quadrant,
Anakelly,
Little Man,
Silicon Teens,
Dorothy Ashby,
New Age Steppers,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Offenders,
Camberwell Now,
Dual Sessions,
June Days,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Moebius,
Letta Mbulu,
Idris Muhammad,
Moby Grape,
John Holt,
Tom Boy,
Fat Boys,
B.T. Express,
Pagans,
L. Decosne,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Nirvana,
Neil Young,
Blancmange,
Bluetip,
Pulsallama,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eddi Front,
Nation of Ulysses,
Max Romeo,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Alphaville,
Flipper,
Sound Behaviour,
Jeff Mills,
Bush Tetras,
Eric Copeland,
The Human League,
Don Cherry,
Stockholm Monsters,
Drexciya,
Althea and Donna,
Mad Mike,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lightning Bolt,
The Blackbyrds,
Inner City,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.