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 Latvia and from Salvador.
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 1965 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 mellotron 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 Neil Young & Crazy Horse to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Roxette. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Toasters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
The Pop Group,
Maurizio,
The Toasters,
Unwound,
Erykah Badu,
Kas Product,
Harry Pussy,
Black Moon,
a-ha,
Pantaleimon,
The Cramps,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Gun Club,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Jandek,
Marmalade,
the Soft Cell,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Happenings,
Gichy Dan,
La Düsseldorf,
Section 25,
Peter & Gordon,
The Blackbyrds,
Barrington Levy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Lightning Bolt,
MC5,
Todd Terry,
Sly & The Family Stone,
World's Most,
The United States of America,
Bizarre Inc.,
Half Japanese,
Duran Duran,
Brass Construction,
Lungfish,
JFA,
Altered Images,
Reagan Youth,
UT,
Dark Day,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sam Rivers,
The Durutti Column,
Malaria!,
Avey Tare,
Desert Stars,
Grandmaster Flash,
Fatback Band,
Joey Negro,
Ponytail,
Niagra,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Minor Threat,
Pierre Henry,
Dead Boys,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lyres,
Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells, Bill Wells.
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.