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 Swaziland and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the guitar 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 The Motions to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sonic Youth 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron 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?
Kenny Larkin,
Rufus Thomas,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Birthday Party,
Gastr Del Sol,
Yazoo,
Carl Craig,
Tears for Fears,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Judy Mowatt,
Babytalk,
The Sonics,
Boogie Down Productions,
Deepchord,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Crispy Ambulance,
These Immortal Souls,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Eric Dolphy,
Jandek,
Stiv Bators,
Whodini,
Popol Vuh,
Neil Young,
Zero Boys,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Fall,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Y Pants,
Cybotron,
Lightning Bolt,
Danielle Patucci,
Gichy Dan,
Camberwell Now,
Pantytec,
the Association,
Mo-Dettes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The J.B.'s,
Drive Like Jehu,
Nirvana,
DJ Sneak,
Silicon Teens,
The Remains,
the Human League,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Rhythm & Sound,
Mission of Burma,
Ice-T,
Unrelated Segments,
Delta 5,
L. Decosne,
Black Flag,
The Slackers,
Todd Rundgren,
Rotary Connection,
Wasted Youth,
The Durutti Column,
Can,
Reagan Youth,
Amon Düül,
Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence, Massinfluence.
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.