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 Brunei and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 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 Essential Logic to the rock 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 The Mummies. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visage record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Selecter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
Oblivians,
Delta 5,
Urselle,
Alison Limerick,
Chrome,
Joe Finger,
Neil Young,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Skarface,
Rakim,
Pantytec,
Flamin' Groovies,
Los Fastidios,
Groovy Waters,
Saccharine Trust,
Porter Ricks,
The Smoke,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Harmonia,
Second Layer,
Michelle Simonal,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Motions,
Lightning Bolt,
the Germs,
Pharoah Sanders,
Motorama,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eric Dolphy,
Scientists,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Circle Jerks,
Boredoms,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Chris Corsano,
Bootsy Collins,
Suburban Knight,
Tropical Tobacco,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Brick,
Godley & Creme,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Slave,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kevin Saunderson,
Yellowson,
Japan,
The Selecter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Amazonics,
The Angels of Light,
Nils Olav,
Al Stewart,
Marmalade,
H. Thieme,
Anthony Braxton,
Ohio Players,
The Fire Engines,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago, Art Ensemble Of Chicago.
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.