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 Croatia and from Milan.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Toronto.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Inner City to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cameo. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Godley & Creme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stockholm Monsters,
Basic Channel,
Magma,
the Normal,
Glenn Branca,
The Litter,
Unrelated Segments,
Minny Pops,
Black Bananas,
Radiohead,
Danielle Patucci,
F. McDonald,
Arthur Verocai,
Pagans,
Dennis Brown,
Depeche Mode,
Ultravox,
Ronnie Foster,
Kevin Saunderson,
Smog,
Laurel Aitken,
MC5,
Mandrill,
Mantronix,
B.T. Express,
Wire,
Bill Near,
The Standells,
Todd Terry,
Bizarre Inc.,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bobby Byrd,
The Electric Prunes,
The Residents,
Yazoo,
This Heat,
Avey Tare,
Ken Boothe,
China Crisis,
Marcia Griffiths,
Scrapy,
Kenny Larkin,
Theoretical Girls,
John Cale,
Technova,
kango's stein massive,
Wasted Youth,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Metal Thangz,
Eric Copeland,
Ralphi Rosario,
Chrome,
Don Cherry,
Zero Boys,
The Raincoats,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Aural Exciters,
John Holt,
June of 44,
Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle, Throbbing Gristle.
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.