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 Korea South and from Taipei.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South London.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 mellotron 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 Lou Christie to the rock 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 Art Ensemble Of Chicago. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fatback Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minny Pops record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unrelated Segments,
The Dead C,
Wings,
Wasted Youth,
Eve St. Jones,
The Moody Blues,
Massinfluence,
June Days,
Wally Richardson,
Vainqueur,
Pierre Henry,
The Sound,
Chrome,
Soul II Soul,
New York Dolls,
Matthew Bourne,
Groovy Waters,
Thee Headcoats,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Patti Smith,
Robert Görl,
Kayak,
Rapeman,
Bootsy Collins,
Rites of Spring,
The Knickerbockers,
The Invisible,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
K-Klass,
Fear,
This Heat,
The Trojans,
Technova,
Deakin,
The Fortunes,
Ten City,
The Leaves,
The Move,
Blake Baxter,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Masters at Work,
KRS-One,
Faust,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joy Division,
The Gap Band,
Chris Corsano,
Crispy Ambulance,
John Holt,
Aaron Thompson,
Television,
Animal Collective,
Schoolly D,
Lalann,
Joensuu 1685,
Symarip,
Roy Ayers,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Bauhaus,
Camberwell Now,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.