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 Libya and from Copenhagen.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the rhodes 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 CMW to the grime kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Lucky Dragons. All the underground hits.
All Peter & Gordon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aural Exciters,
Panda Bear,
Sam Rivers,
Terry Callier,
Shuggie Otis,
Derrick May,
The Index,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Reuben Wilson,
Scion,
Los Fastidios,
Funky Four + One,
Dead Boys,
The Doors,
Jawbox,
Sparks,
The Invisible,
The Busters,
The Saints,
Outsiders,
Ultravox,
Arcadia,
Surgeon,
John Foxx,
Gil Scott Heron,
Mo-Dettes,
Half Japanese,
Easy Going,
Wire,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Bill Wells,
Grandmaster Flash,
Davy DMX,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Parry Music,
Visage,
The Modern Lovers,
Scrapy,
The Misunderstood,
Ronan,
The Leaves,
Al Stewart,
Brick,
Joensuu 1685,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Delta 5,
Lee Hazlewood,
Derrick Morgan,
Agent Orange,
E-Dancer,
Boredoms,
Cymande,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Wings,
The Red Krayola,
Kas Product,
Groovy Waters,
The American Breed,
Ultra Naté,
Flash Fearless,
The Sound,
Jeff Mills,
The Mummies,
Average White Band,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.