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 Latvia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 spring reverb 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 Oneida to the rock 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 Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band. All the underground hits.
All Agent Orange tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Supertramp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 marimba and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Second Layer record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Massinfluence,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scientists,
Josef K,
The Happenings,
Archie Shepp,
Mandrill,
Black Flag,
Gang Green,
Ituana,
Janne Schatter,
Erykah Badu,
Crooked Eye,
Television,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alison Limerick,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Zeros,
Harry Pussy,
The Evens,
Sight & Sound,
The Mojo Men,
Royal Trux,
Livin' Joy,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Soft Cell,
Q and Not U,
Main Source,
The Grass Roots,
Roger Hodgson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Skarface,
Deadbeat,
Mo-Dettes,
the Normal,
DJ Style,
Zero Boys,
Angry Samoans,
Basic Channel,
Metal Thangz,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Swans,
Young Marble Giants,
Tears for Fears,
Eden Ahbez,
The Divine Comedy,
Nick Fraelich,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Morten Harket,
Prince Buster,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Con Funk Shun,
Rotary Connection,
The Durutti Column,
Ultimate Spinach,
Eurythmics,
The Count Five,
Absolute Body Control,
Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments, Unrelated Segments.
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.