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 Monaco and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 sitar 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 Graham Central Station to the punk 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 Avey Tare. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Country Joe & The Fish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Jimmy McGriff,
Pere Ubu,
Sun Ra,
Juan Atkins,
Roy Ayers,
The Gun Club,
The Smoke,
Quantec,
Ossler,
the Slits,
Gong,
Pet Shop Boys,
Patti Smith,
Section 25,
Talk Talk,
Urselle,
Soft Machine,
Q65,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Amon Düül II,
Ronan,
The Busters,
The Pop Group,
Chris Corsano,
Piero Umiliani,
The Black Dice,
Anakelly,
Magazine,
Amazonics,
Funky Four + One,
Soulsonic Force,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Jeff Lynne,
Roxette,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Stereo Dub,
Basic Channel,
Judy Mowatt,
Connie Case,
48th St. Collective,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
A Certain Ratio,
Easy Going,
Tommy Roe,
The Remains,
Jacob Miller,
Mars,
JFA,
Minutemen,
John Foxx,
Wire,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Pussy Galore,
Tropical Tobacco,
Brothers Johnson,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Junior Murvin,
The Divine Comedy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Sonics,
The Move,
John Holt, John Holt, John Holt, John Holt.
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.