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 Sudan and from New York.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Peter & Gordon to the techno 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 Eddi Front. All the underground hits.
All Dennis Brown tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cal Tjader record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Section 25,
One Last Wish,
Mandrill,
Jacques Brel,
Franke,
Gichy Dan,
Wire,
Kerrie Biddell,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Qualms,
Pet Shop Boys,
The Modern Lovers,
The Associates,
Suburban Knight,
Rotary Connection,
The Gories,
Aaron Thompson,
Kayak,
Jawbox,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Evens,
John Cale,
New York Dolls,
Lower 48,
Babytalk,
Soul II Soul,
Roy Ayers,
Wasted Youth,
Sällskapet,
The J.B.'s,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pagans,
Crime,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Popol Vuh,
Gregory Isaacs,
Con Funk Shun,
Kurtis Blow,
Colin Newman,
Gabor Szabo,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Throbbing Gristle,
Johnny Clarke,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
James Chance & The Contortions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Faust,
The Golliwogs,
the Slits,
Connie Case,
Q65,
Flamin' Groovies,
10cc,
Accadde A,
Juan Atkins,
The Smiths,
Talk Talk,
Banda Bassotti,
EPMD,
Mars,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat.
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.