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 Cuba and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the rhodes 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 Mars to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Mad Mike tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jandek 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Youth Brigade record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Symarip,
Neu!,
Marmalade,
The Sonics,
Brass Construction,
Barclay James Harvest,
CMW,
The Walker Brothers,
The Fall,
Cameo,
Hoover,
Rosa Yemen,
The Motions,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Stetsasonic,
Robert Görl,
Television,
Janne Schatter,
Groovy Waters,
Au Pairs,
the Germs,
Lee Hazlewood,
Reagan Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Niagra,
Faraquet,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Beau Brummels,
Nik Kershaw,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Porter Ricks,
Von Mondo,
Chrome,
Scan 7,
David Axelrod,
Youth Brigade,
The Tremeloes,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Minny Pops,
Kool Moe Dee,
Scott Walker,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
New Order,
Audionom,
The Slackers,
Gastr Del Sol,
Simply Red,
Arcadia,
Donny Hathaway,
Hardrive,
Crispy Ambulance,
The Wake,
Throbbing Gristle,
Pagans,
Kayak,
Marine Girls,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Model 500,
MDC,
Severed Heads, Severed Heads, Severed Heads, Severed Heads.
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.