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 Philippines and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 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 Audionom to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Yellowson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Doors record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
E-Dancer,
Groovy Waters,
T. Rex,
The Birthday Party,
John Coltrane,
Yazoo,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Reuben Wilson,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lee Hazlewood,
Accadde A,
The Mojo Men,
Lakeside,
Brick,
the Association,
Gerry Rafferty,
Marcia Griffiths,
Nation of Ulysses,
Flamin' Groovies,
Roger Hodgson,
The Barracudas,
Pantaleimon,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Music Machine,
New York Dolls,
Glenn Branca,
The Buckinghams,
Main Source,
Gil Scott Heron,
ABC,
the Swans,
Country Teasers,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Rod Modell,
Bluetip,
Cluster,
The Black Dice,
The Alarm Clocks,
Nirvana,
Kerri Chandler,
Public Enemy,
Inner City,
Slick Rick,
Stetsasonic,
Procol Harum,
Eric Copeland,
Banda Bassotti,
Sam Rivers,
The Blues Magoos,
Archie Shepp,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Unrelated Segments,
John Holt,
Soulsonic Force,
Scion,
Funkadelic,
Fatback Band,
Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger, Sixth Finger.
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.