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 Vietnam and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Robert Palmer 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 New York Dolls to the rock 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 Sällskapet. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobbi Humphrey record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lalo Schifrin,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Procol Harum,
Ultra Naté,
Adolescents,
Rapeman,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Talk Talk,
Pylon,
Grauzone,
The Human League,
Youth Brigade,
Roy Ayers,
Funky Four + One,
Jawbox,
the Association,
Blake Baxter,
Sonny Sharrock,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Trojans,
Bluetip,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Hashim,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
World's Most,
Amon Düül,
China Crisis,
Amazonics,
Fad Gadget,
10cc,
Lee Hazlewood,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
the Slits,
The Walker Brothers,
Donny Hathaway,
Peter and Kerry,
Kerrie Biddell,
Electric Prunes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Schoolly D,
Rotary Connection,
Crispian St. Peters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Neu!,
Groovy Waters,
Gabor Szabo,
Interpol,
Lightning Bolt,
Patti Smith,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Panda Bear,
Moby Grape,
Derrick Morgan,
Mad Mike,
The Blackbyrds,
Pere Ubu,
Brothers Johnson,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Dave Gahan,
The Doors,
Section 25, Section 25, Section 25, Section 25.
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.