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 Azerbaijan and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1979 at the first Josef K practice in a loft in Edinburgh.
I was working on the sitar 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 Babytalk to the dance 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All ABBA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mary Jane Girls record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a LL Cool J record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
UT,
John Coltrane,
David Bowie,
The Gladiators,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Deakin,
Josef K,
Man Parrish,
Charles Mingus,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Rod Modell,
Bob Dylan,
Idris Muhammad,
The Neon Judgement,
Ken Boothe,
Girls At Our Best!,
Arcadia,
Minor Threat,
Eurythmics,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Saints,
Brass Construction,
the Slits,
Kaleidoscope,
Minutemen,
Nico,
Janne Schatter,
Zero Boys,
Jeff Lynne,
Altered Images,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sarah Menescal,
The Golliwogs,
Bobby Sherman,
Trumans Water,
The Knickerbockers,
John Lydon,
James Chance & The Contortions,
10cc,
Yaz,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Chris Corsano,
Andrew Hill,
the Fania All-Stars,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scrapy,
Malaria!,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Symarip,
Half Japanese,
The Offenders,
The Gun Club,
Circle Jerks,
Q and Not U,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Excepter,
Porter Ricks,
The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes, The Fortunes.
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.