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 Guatemala and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1965 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 guitar 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 Grauzone to the rap kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Essential Logic. All the underground hits.
All DeepChord presents Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brand Nubian record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camberwell Now record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tim Buckley,
Swell Maps,
Grauzone,
The Misunderstood,
David Axelrod,
John Lydon,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Seeds,
The Index,
The Shadows of Knight,
Rod Modell,
Talk Talk,
Brothers Johnson,
Nik Kershaw,
the Sonics,
Scrapy,
Monolake,
The Happenings,
Brass Construction,
The Black Dice,
Kevin Saunderson,
Minor Threat,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Outsiders,
Dennis Brown,
Sarah Menescal,
The Standells,
Saccharine Trust,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Siglo XX,
Model 500,
Mission of Burma,
Young Marble Giants,
The Angels of Light,
Quadrant,
Babytalk,
Reagan Youth,
Lalann,
CMW,
Aloha Tigers,
The Doors,
Lower 48,
Wire,
The Raincoats,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The United States of America,
Tears for Fears,
Dawn Penn,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kerrie Biddell,
Organ,
Robert Wyatt,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Anthony Braxton,
Judy Mowatt,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scott Walker,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Television,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons, Lucky Dragons.
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.