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 Jordan and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 organ 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 The Birthday Party to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 The Saints. All the underground hits.
All The Techniques tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Associates record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dirtbombs,
Josef K,
Wasted Youth,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Judy Mowatt,
Das Ding,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
AZ,
Absolute Body Control,
The Slits,
Drive Like Jehu,
Todd Terry,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alice Coltrane,
Delta 5,
The Moleskins,
The Busters,
Bob Dylan,
The Skatalites,
The Walker Brothers,
Mr. Review,
The Cramps,
Television,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
CMW,
The Standells,
Lucky Dragons,
The Five Americans,
The Fall,
Joe Finger,
Hardrive,
Shoche,
Barclay James Harvest,
Deadbeat,
Intrusion,
The Pretty Things,
Malaria!,
Heaven 17,
EPMD,
Tommy Roe,
The Fuzztones,
The Moody Blues,
Marc Almond,
Average White Band,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
T.S.O.L.,
Erykah Badu,
Peter and Kerry,
Can,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Kinks,
Duran Duran,
Joy Division,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Harpers Bizarre,
Aaron Thompson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Gabor Szabo,
Maleditus Sound,
Theoretical Girls,
The Sound,
Mission of Burma,
Q65, Q65, Q65, Q65.
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.