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 Mali and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Girls At Our Best! to the funk 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 Lou Reed & John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Spoonie Gee tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ponytail record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 guitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Modern Lovers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
Negative Approach,
Mandrill,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Barracudas,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Jesper Dahlback,
Leonard Cohen,
Neil Young,
Black Moon,
K-Klass,
Roy Ayers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Johnny Osbourne,
Joe Smooth,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
kango's stein massive,
The Beau Brummels,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Vogues,
Neu!,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Colin Newman,
The Walker Brothers,
X-101,
Swans,
Erasure,
Derrick May,
Deepchord,
Tommy Roe,
Amon Düül,
Cecil Taylor,
the Swans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Fat Boys,
Joe Finger,
Scion,
Lindisfarne,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Deakin,
The Fire Engines,
Max Romeo,
Wings,
Sonic Youth,
Skaos,
Basic Channel,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Michelle Simonal,
Iggy Pop,
The Modern Lovers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Monks,
Tears for Fears,
June Days,
OOIOO,
Bobby Womack,
Mission of Burma,
Godley & Creme,
Jeff Lynne,
Camouflage,
Radiopuhelimet,
The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans, The Five Americans.
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.