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 Grenada and from Beijing.
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 1968 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Houston.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
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 Panda Bear to the jazz 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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Althea and Donna record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 The Electric Prunes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
Gang Green,
Sun Ra,
Ornette Coleman,
Flamin' Groovies,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Swell Maps,
Tropical Tobacco,
Robert Hood,
The Stooges,
Ultravox,
Byron Stingily,
Bluetip,
Lightning Bolt,
Glenn Branca,
Procol Harum,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Massinfluence,
Pantaleimon,
The Techniques,
Mission of Burma,
Joe Finger,
Brothers Johnson,
The Gladiators,
Glambeats Corp.,
Sam Rivers,
Royal Trux,
Ponytail,
Ice-T,
Jacob Miller,
Chris Corsano,
Organ,
Blossom Toes,
Cameo,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
MC5,
Outsiders,
Sonic Youth,
Marcia Griffiths,
Drexciya,
LL Cool J,
Todd Rundgren,
The Invisible,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Eden Ahbez,
The Gories,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Skarface,
June Days,
The Cure,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Birthday Party,
Anthony Braxton,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Roger Hodgson,
Young Marble Giants,
The Knickerbockers,
Deadbeat,
Sonny Sharrock,
Crime,
Ten City, Ten City, Ten City, Ten City.
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.