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 Nepal and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 güiro 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 UT 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 Dave Gahan. All the underground hits.
All The Young Rascals tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quando Quango record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
EPMD,
DJ Style,
Eli Mardock,
B.T. Express,
Mark Hollis,
The J.B.'s,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Wally Richardson,
David Bowie,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sam Rivers,
Jandek,
Soft Cell,
Skaos,
Toni Rubio,
Half Japanese,
Albert Ayler,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Josef K,
Lou Christie,
Delta 5,
Excepter,
Mars,
X-101,
A Certain Ratio,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Slackers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Erykah Badu,
Deepchord,
MC5,
The Golliwogs,
Blancmange,
Pole,
Quando Quango,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Carl Craig,
The Barracudas,
Accadde A,
Nas,
The Cowsills,
Flash Fearless,
Icehouse,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bauhaus,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Deadbeat,
Man Parrish,
Trumans Water,
Monks,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Five Americans,
The Knickerbockers,
Easy Going,
Wire,
Bronski Beat,
Ten City,
Freddie Wadling,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Ituana,
Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents, Adolescents.
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.