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 Burundi and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Rites of Spring to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All Interpol tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sonics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Youth Brigade,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Fuzztones,
Jawbox,
The Divine Comedy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Donny Hathaway,
The Monks,
EPMD,
Yellowson,
Stereo Dub,
Ituana,
Easy Going,
Joensuu 1685,
Pantaleimon,
Swans,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Lightning Bolt,
Second Layer,
The Cure,
Janne Schatter,
Rekid,
Das Ding,
Lindisfarne,
Eddi Front,
Excepter,
Cheater Slicks,
Lee Hazlewood,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Girls At Our Best!,
Roxette,
Newcleus,
Derrick May,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Selecter,
Pharoah Sanders,
Blancmange,
Laurel Aitken,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Absolute Body Control,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
the Sonics,
Eric Dolphy,
Neil Young,
Parry Music,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Kayak,
FM Einheit,
La Düsseldorf,
Vladislav Delay,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jacob Miller,
Blossom Toes,
X-Ray Spex,
Ronnie Foster,
Ornette Coleman,
Sixth Finger,
Desert Stars,
Fluxion,
Television Personalities,
Duran Duran,
Marshall Jefferson,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish, Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish.
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.