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 Peru and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 organ 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 the Normal to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Leaves. All the underground hits.
All Man Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soul Sonic Force record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Glenn Branca record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boz Scaggs,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Quando Quango,
Vladislav Delay,
Animal Collective,
The Slits,
Carl Craig,
The Cramps,
China Crisis,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Barracudas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Duran Duran,
New Order,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sister Nancy,
Roy Ayers,
Unrelated Segments,
Soft Cell,
Infiniti,
Crash Course in Science,
The Smoke,
Drive Like Jehu,
Magma,
Joe Finger,
Groovy Waters,
Tomorrow,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
X-101,
the Bar-Kays,
Lee Hazlewood,
Rufus Thomas,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kerrie Biddell,
Public Image Ltd.,
Brand Nubian,
Darondo,
Morten Harket,
Schoolly D,
Tres Demented,
Cybotron,
Barbara Tucker,
Nirvana,
Tubeway Army,
Deakin,
Robert Wyatt,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
the Normal,
Bobby Sherman,
Boogie Down Productions,
E-Dancer,
Youth Brigade,
Roxette,
Lebanon Hanover,
Deepchord,
Hasil Adkins,
The Shadows of Knight,
F. McDonald,
Hashim,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.