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 Liberia and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Albert Ayler to the crunk 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 Barracudas. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Doors record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a 808 and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Barracudas,
Tropical Tobacco,
U.S. Maple,
Dead Boys,
David McCallum,
Drive Like Jehu,
Pierre Henry,
The Knickerbockers,
Arcadia,
Jeff Lynne,
Boogie Down Productions,
Black Sheep,
Gil Scott Heron,
Roy Ayers,
Talk Talk,
Aloha Tigers,
Terry Callier,
This Heat,
Sarah Menescal,
Stereo Dub,
Jandek,
Black Bananas,
Popol Vuh,
The Wake,
Mr. Review,
The Stooges,
the Association,
the Normal,
The Sound,
Lower 48,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Young Rascals,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Negative Approach,
The Techniques,
Zapp,
The Cure,
The Index,
The Names,
Todd Terry,
Section 25,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Spoonie Gee,
Index,
Crispian St. Peters,
Massinfluence,
Sam Rivers,
Public Enemy,
The Vogues,
The J.B.'s,
Mantronix,
F. McDonald,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Crispy Ambulance,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Neu!,
X-Ray Spex,
Panda Bear,
Surgeon,
Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai, Arthur Verocai.
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.