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 South Africa and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Buzzcocks show in Bolton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Calgary.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the arpeggiator 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 Panda Bear to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Dead Boys. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Dual Sessions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Urselle record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hardrive,
Kool Moe Dee,
Don Cherry,
The Moleskins,
Johnny Clarke,
Nas,
Lakeside,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Delta 5,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Mo-Dettes,
Basic Channel,
Gregory Isaacs,
Crime,
The Five Americans,
Alison Limerick,
Mars,
Visage,
Yaz,
Moby Grape,
Smog,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Star Department,
Tropical Tobacco,
Lou Christie,
World's Most,
the Normal,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Dirtbombs,
H. Thieme,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Animal Collective,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Minny Pops,
Ultimate Spinach,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Iggy Pop,
Boz Scaggs,
Pharoah Sanders,
Clear Light,
Yusef Lateef,
Alton Ellis,
Anakelly,
Minnie Riperton,
Harmonia,
The Velvet Underground,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Doobie Brothers,
Essential Logic,
the Swans,
The Saints,
Erasure,
Camberwell Now,
A Certain Ratio,
The Red Krayola,
Kayak,
Rufus Thomas,
Lindisfarne,
Thee Headcoats,
Bush Tetras,
Can,
Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw, Nik Kershaw.
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.