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 Namibia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Idris Muhammad to the electroclash 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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Mighty Diamonds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Notorious Big And Bone Thugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Second Layer,
Aswad,
Kevin Saunderson,
Mandrill,
The Moleskins,
Michelle Simonal,
Isaac Hayes,
Hardrive,
Cameo,
Ultra Naté,
Wally Richardson,
Kaleidoscope,
Nik Kershaw,
Zapp,
China Crisis,
Massinfluence,
The Gap Band,
Mr. Review,
FM Einheit,
Qualms,
The Gories,
Barrington Levy,
U.S. Maple,
Zero Boys,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Prince Buster,
The Grass Roots,
Basic Channel,
The Slits,
Joe Smooth,
The Modern Lovers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Red Krayola,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Cramps,
Pulsallama,
K-Klass,
Cheater Slicks,
Archie Shepp,
Rhythm & Sound,
Ituana,
The Motions,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
John Foxx,
Youth Brigade,
The Invisible,
Groovy Waters,
Frankie Knuckles,
David Axelrod,
The Searchers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
the Sonics,
Carl Craig,
Ultimate Spinach,
Derrick May,
Young Marble Giants,
The Young Rascals,
James White and The Blacks,
Sexual Harrassment,
Tropical Tobacco,
Smog, Smog, Smog, Smog.
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.