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 San Marino and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the organ 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 Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 to the dance 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 Ronnie Foster. All the underground hits.
All The Victims tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every World's Most record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bronski Beat,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
A Certain Ratio,
The Cramps,
The Monks,
Shuggie Otis,
Marine Girls,
Spoonie Gee,
Nico,
Sarah Menescal,
Steve Hackett,
Kool Moe Dee,
AZ,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Slackers,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Kerri Chandler,
Albert Ayler,
Andrew Hill,
Ornette Coleman,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Velvet Underground,
Oblivians,
ABBA,
Prince Buster,
Youth Brigade,
June of 44,
Mantronix,
MDC,
Robert Wyatt,
Barrington Levy,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Tim Buckley,
Ossler,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Raincoats,
Barbara Tucker,
Reuben Wilson,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mr. Review,
The Walker Brothers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Newcleus,
Pussy Galore,
Black Sheep,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Fall,
Al Stewart,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Agitation Free,
Colin Newman,
Arthur Verocai,
Archie Shepp,
Siglo XX,
Flash Fearless,
Q65,
Moebius,
Traffic Nightmare,
Von Mondo,
the Normal,
The Searchers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.