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 the UAE and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Martian to the dance kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Ronan. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Mantronix,
Matthew Bourne,
Liliput,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Howard Jones,
Warren Ellis,
Donald Byrd,
Mad Mike,
Gabor Szabo,
Porter Ricks,
John Cale,
Ultra Naté,
Amon Düül II,
New York Dolls,
Wire,
Camouflage,
The Misunderstood,
Boz Scaggs,
Heaven 17,
Jeff Mills,
Lalann,
Severed Heads,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Pop Group,
Animal Collective,
The Alarm Clocks,
Von Mondo,
Albert Ayler,
The Searchers,
Arab on Radar,
In Retrospect,
Japan,
UT,
Rod Modell,
Minutemen,
Desert Stars,
The Zeros,
David McCallum,
The Count Five,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lou Christie,
Fluxion,
Talk Talk,
One Last Wish,
Procol Harum,
The Mojo Men,
Crispy Ambulance,
Q and Not U,
Shuggie Otis,
The Velvet Underground,
Jacob Miller,
Bobby Womack,
Joey Negro,
The Leaves,
Pere Ubu,
The Birthday Party,
MDC,
The Cure,
Johnny Osbourne,
Anakelly,
Second Layer,
Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen, Leonard Cohen.
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.