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 Hungary and from Milan.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 organ 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 Godley & Creme to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every L. Decosne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Roxette,
Leonard Cohen,
Ronan,
Black Moon,
Nils Olav,
The Buckinghams,
PIL,
ABBA,
Alison Limerick,
The Blackbyrds,
The Golliwogs,
MC5,
Arcadia,
Swans,
Barrington Levy,
Symarip,
Aaron Thompson,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Fugazi,
Jandek,
Charles Mingus,
Chris & Cosey,
Pulsallama,
Stiv Bators,
Erasure,
Crooked Eye,
Hasil Adkins,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Gil Scott Heron,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Young Rascals,
Man Eating Sloth,
Soulsonic Force,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Jacques Brel,
Wings,
AZ,
The Monks,
Terrestrial Tones,
Loose Ends,
The Trojans,
Max Romeo,
Tres Demented,
The Birthday Party,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Rufus Thomas,
Mark Hollis,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Guru Guru,
Lightning Bolt,
Oblivians,
The Associates,
The Grass Roots,
Jesper Dahlback,
Kenny Larkin,
Skaos,
Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters, Crispian St. Peters.
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.