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 Iran and from Glasgow.
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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 spring reverb 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 Metal Thangz to the disco kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Warsaw tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Glenn Branca record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Motions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
The Sonics,
The Human League,
Youth Brigade,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Circle Jerks,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Basic Channel,
Pierre Henry,
Fatback Band,
The Divine Comedy,
Marc Almond,
The Gladiators,
Bill Near,
Icehouse,
EPMD,
Sällskapet,
Deakin,
Swans,
Hoover,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Wally Richardson,
Scott Walker,
Minnie Riperton,
The Shadows of Knight,
Pet Shop Boys,
Tom Boy,
Amon Düül II,
AZ,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
48th St. Collective,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lou Reed,
Susan Cadogan,
Khruangbin,
The Dave Clark Five,
The Golliwogs,
Boredoms,
Funky Four + One,
Jacob Miller,
World's Most,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
The Walker Brothers,
The Misunderstood,
Grandmaster Flash,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Kas Product,
Mark Hollis,
the Germs,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Outsiders,
Erasure,
The Skatalites,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Marvin Gaye,
The Blues Magoos,
Ossler,
The Associates,
Lindisfarne,
David Bowie,
Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck, Jesper Dahlbäck.
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.