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 Cyprus and from Tehran.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Pussy Galore to the disco 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 Inner City. All the underground hits.
All Throbbing Gristle tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Colin Newman 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 spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Sonics,
The Zeros,
Cybotron,
Toni Rubio,
The Doors,
Pylon,
The United States of America,
Oblivians,
Spandau Ballet,
Outsiders,
Curtis Mayfield,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Normal,
Organ,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Fall,
Gichy Dan,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
UT,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
the Germs,
Delta 5,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Derrick May,
Lalo Schifrin,
Soul II Soul,
Jerry's Kids,
Technova,
Alphaville,
Massinfluence,
The Real Kids,
Bill Wells,
Eurythmics,
Black Pus,
The Golliwogs,
Lightning Bolt,
Icehouse,
Aaron Thompson,
Jesper Dahlback,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Arthur Verocai,
The Selecter,
Man Parrish,
The Cramps,
Visage,
Juan Atkins,
Mr. Review,
Stiv Bators,
Bauhaus,
Schoolly D,
Magma,
Eric Dolphy,
the Sonics,
This Heat,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Victims,
Lakeside,
Eden Ahbez,
Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare, Avey Tare.
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.