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 Argentina and from Halifax.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the oboe 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 Minutemen to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Last Poets. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Television 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Velvet Underground record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Motions,
Agitation Free,
Gabor Szabo,
Lungfish,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sonny Sharrock,
The Cure,
Roger Hodgson,
Ronan,
Derrick May,
Whodini,
Hashim,
the Slits,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Bobby Womack,
Echospace,
Fela Kuti,
Brick,
DJ Sneak,
Danielle Patucci,
Moby Grape,
T. Rex,
a-ha,
The Techniques,
Isaac Hayes,
Masters at Work,
Susan Cadogan,
Second Layer,
The United States of America,
Junior Murvin,
The Real Kids,
World's Most,
Judy Mowatt,
Terry Callier,
Robert Görl,
The Birthday Party,
The Shadows of Knight,
Radio Birdman,
Joe Smooth,
Bush Tetras,
Drexciya,
Porter Ricks,
Organ,
Robert Wyatt,
Dawn Penn,
Scan 7,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
the Soft Cell,
Grandmaster Flash,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Black Bananas,
Black Moon,
Avey Tare,
Kerri Chandler,
Vladislav Delay,
Flipper,
The J.B.'s,
Lalann,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Toasters,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.