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 Hungary and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1983 at the first Lewis practice in a loft in Vancouver.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 the Normal to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Fort Wilson Riot. All the underground hits.
All The Vogues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dave Gahan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ralphi Rosario record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Byrd,
Peter & Gordon,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Soulsonic Force,
Todd Rundgren,
Minny Pops,
Erykah Badu,
Khruangbin,
Brass Construction,
The Stooges,
The Sonics,
June of 44,
JFA,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Tubeway Army,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Residents,
Franke,
Absolute Body Control,
Amon Düül,
kango's stein massive,
Andrew Hill,
Pere Ubu,
Roger Hodgson,
Albert Ayler,
Robert Wyatt,
One Last Wish,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Slick Rick,
Scott Walker,
KRS-One,
Deadbeat,
the Bar-Kays,
The Trojans,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Archie Shepp,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Avey Tare,
Byron Stingily,
Donny Hathaway,
Vainqueur,
L. Decosne,
Rites of Spring,
Skaos,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
In Retrospect,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Blake Baxter,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Throbbing Gristle,
Aswad,
The Barracudas,
Severed Heads,
Scan 7,
Leonard Cohen,
Eve St. Jones,
Shoche,
Mad Mike,
Malaria!,
Delta 5,
Scion,
Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead, Radiohead.
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.