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 Montenegro and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 guitar 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 Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Richard Hell and the Voidoids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Cowsills 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Japan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Country Joe & The Fish,
Leonard Cohen,
Grandmaster Flash,
Rekid,
Tomorrow,
The Real Kids,
The Trojans,
Unwound,
Lou Reed,
The Tremeloes,
Flash Fearless,
The Black Dice,
Basic Channel,
ABBA,
Technova,
New Age Steppers,
These Immortal Souls,
Cymande,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Velvet Underground,
Maleditus Sound,
Soft Machine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Gories,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Susan Cadogan,
Bluetip,
Arthur Verocai,
Rites of Spring,
Roger Hodgson,
The Fugs,
Howard Jones,
Brick,
cv313,
The Monochrome Set,
Quantec,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Depeche Mode,
Electric Prunes,
Cluster,
Marshall Jefferson,
Spandau Ballet,
Josef K,
Newcleus,
The Busters,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Mission of Burma,
China Crisis,
DJ Style,
X-102,
Minnie Riperton,
Radio Birdman,
Jandek,
Faraquet,
Barry Ungar,
Rotary Connection,
New York Dolls,
Deepchord,
The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas, The Barracudas.
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.