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 Switzerland and from Stockholm.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Paris.
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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar 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 Rosa Yemen to the rock 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 The Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All Yusef Lateef 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 jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vladislav Delay,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Pylon,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Jacques Brel,
Jesper Dahlback,
Graham Central Station,
Electric Prunes,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Buckinghams,
Easy Going,
Parry Music,
Stereo Dub,
Laurel Aitken,
The Fall,
Lalo Schifrin,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Mary Jane Girls,
Ken Boothe,
Stiv Bators,
a-ha,
Visage,
Scott Walker,
Marine Girls,
The Blackbyrds,
Negative Approach,
T. Rex,
Quando Quango,
Piero Umiliani,
Junior Murvin,
Michelle Simonal,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Television,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Glambeats Corp.,
Blake Baxter,
Matthew Halsall,
Joey Negro,
Mr. Review,
The Pretty Things,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Country Teasers,
Althea and Donna,
Crispian St. Peters,
Tres Demented,
Pantytec,
Slick Rick,
Saccharine Trust,
Arcadia,
June of 44,
Second Layer,
Q65,
The Black Dice,
Angry Samoans,
Leonard Cohen,
LL Cool J,
Neu!,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Hot Snakes,
Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya, Drexciya.
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.