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 Lithuania and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1965 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
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 Larry & the Blue Notes to the funk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brothers Johnson record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Roy Ayers Ubiquity record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sight & Sound,
Hardrive,
The Martian,
Ponytail,
Surgeon,
Michelle Simonal,
In Retrospect,
Danielle Patucci,
MDC,
Faust,
Pet Shop Boys,
Barrington Levy,
the Sonics,
Ituana,
James White and The Blacks,
Smog,
Grey Daturas,
Monolake,
the Swans,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Moebius,
Wasted Youth,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Brick,
Black Bananas,
Iggy Pop,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Junior Murvin,
the Normal,
Barbara Tucker,
Half Japanese,
Electric Prunes,
Gang Gang Dance,
Godley & Creme,
Lower 48,
Robert Hood,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Tres Demented,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Pylon,
X-102,
Guru Guru,
Kerrie Biddell,
Procol Harum,
Sällskapet,
Newcleus,
Todd Terry,
Swans,
Ludus,
Y Pants,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Motorama,
The Alarm Clocks,
Bobby Byrd,
The Zeros,
The Names,
The Modern Lovers,
The Cramps,
Tomorrow,
Dark Day,
Youth Brigade,
Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi, Fugazi.
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.