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 Kosovo and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Gang Green to the electroclash 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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Animal Collective record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sandy B record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
The Modern Lovers,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Lebanon Hanover,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Infiniti,
Negative Approach,
Jerry's Kids,
Whodini,
Oneida,
Agitation Free,
Donald Byrd,
Animal Collective,
Eric Copeland,
New Order,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sex Pistols,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Q and Not U,
Desert Stars,
Section 25,
Supertramp,
Yazoo,
Absolute Body Control,
B.T. Express,
The Real Kids,
Joe Smooth,
Moebius,
Charles Mingus,
Unwound,
Deepchord,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Divine Comedy,
Urselle,
The Smiths,
Drexciya,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Piero Umiliani,
Circle Jerks,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Young Rascals,
Yellowson,
Kas Product,
Kayak,
Joyce Sims,
Anakelly,
Agent Orange,
Black Bananas,
The Five Americans,
The Fugs,
Harpers Bizarre,
Judy Mowatt,
Bill Wells,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Tom Boy,
Jeff Lynne,
Guru Guru,
Fugazi,
Iggy Pop,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks, Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks.
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.