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 Qatar and from Cairo.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 chamberlin 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 Peter and Kerry to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ornette Coleman. All the underground hits.
All Massinfluence 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 punk 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 clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Nico record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Howard Jones,
Marcia Griffiths,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Aaron Thompson,
Janne Schatter,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Dennis Brown,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Gap Band,
The United States of America,
Gichy Dan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Seeds,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Moby Grape,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
D'Angelo,
Magazine,
Intrusion,
Michelle Simonal,
The Last Poets,
Wolf Eyes,
Faraquet,
Angry Samoans,
Boredoms,
Buzzcocks,
New York Dolls,
Scott Walker,
John Coltrane,
Lou Reed,
Funkadelic,
Skriet,
Popol Vuh,
The Angels of Light,
The Standells,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Wings,
Lucky Dragons,
Joey Negro,
Patti Smith,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Boogie Down Productions,
Eli Mardock,
Brothers Johnson,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Eric Dolphy,
Cluster,
Matthew Bourne,
Kool Moe Dee,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Jeff Mills,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Severed Heads,
Schoolly D,
The Techniques,
Oneida,
Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman, Radio Birdman.
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.