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 Canada and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Unwound to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Leonard Cohen. All the underground hits.
All EPMD tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Fraelich 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Juan Atkins,
The Smoke,
New Order,
The Vogues,
Audionom,
Jeff Lynne,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Maleditus Sound,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Sam Rivers,
Steve Hackett,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Danielle Patucci,
Bill Wells,
Neu!,
Television,
Ralphi Rosario,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Colin Newman,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Reuben Wilson,
Prince Buster,
Buzzcocks,
The Pop Group,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Procol Harum,
The Velvet Underground,
K-Klass,
Leonard Cohen,
Mark Hollis,
Ultimate Spinach,
Underground Resistance,
Erykah Badu,
The Trojans,
Terrestrial Tones,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Half Japanese,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The New Christs,
Khruangbin,
Deadbeat,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Star Department,
Minutemen,
The Kinks,
Rhythm & Sound,
Maurizio,
The Litter,
Monolake,
Harry Pussy,
Howard Jones,
The Music Machine,
John Foxx,
T.S.O.L.,
Hardrive,
Altered Images,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Blake Baxter,
Jacob Miller,
Mr. Review,
The Durutti Column,
Kenny Larkin,
Lindisfarne,
Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne, Johnny Osbourne.
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.