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 Belarus and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1962 at the first Guess Who practice in a loft in Winnipeg.
I was working on the güiro 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 Quadrant to the grime 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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Alarm Clocks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Amon Düül II,
Au Pairs,
The Cramps,
Johnny Osbourne,
DNA,
X-Ray Spex,
The Moleskins,
Yaz,
James White and The Blacks,
Theoretical Girls,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Stereo Dub,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Flesh Eaters,
Camouflage,
Youth Brigade,
Marvin Gaye,
Bill Wells,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
cv313,
The Monks,
Albert Ayler,
Man Parrish,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Knickerbockers,
Agent Orange,
Skaos,
B.T. Express,
Stockholm Monsters,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Big Daddy Kane,
Carl Craig,
Laurel Aitken,
The New Christs,
New Order,
Inner City,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mars,
Charles Mingus,
Slave,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
China Crisis,
Television Personalities,
Todd Rundgren,
Alton Ellis,
Pet Shop Boys,
Livin' Joy,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Connie Case,
Shoche,
Massinfluence,
Juan Atkins,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Erykah Badu,
The Names,
Procol Harum,
The Dave Clark Five,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
the Fania All-Stars,
Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar, Barry Ungar.
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.