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 Mali and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Sad Lovers and Giants to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Groovy Waters. All the underground hits.
All The Zeros tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wasted Youth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Germs,
Al Stewart,
Livin' Joy,
Anthony Braxton,
Jeff Mills,
Mr. Review,
Alison Limerick,
K-Klass,
Buzzcocks,
Neu!,
D'Angelo,
Wasted Youth,
the Sonics,
Bobby Womack,
Liliput,
Massinfluence,
Pantaleimon,
The Mojo Men,
Jesper Dahlback,
Rites of Spring,
Grey Daturas,
E-Dancer,
The Trojans,
Brick,
Icehouse,
Camberwell Now,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Make Up,
Rufus Thomas,
The Smiths,
Joensuu 1685,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Harpers Bizarre,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Scrapy,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Erykah Badu,
Boogie Down Productions,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Electric Prunes,
Inner City,
Steve Hackett,
Eric Copeland,
Ken Boothe,
Negative Approach,
Minor Threat,
Eden Ahbez,
Kurtis Blow,
Derrick Morgan,
David McCallum,
Warsaw,
The Seeds,
Roxy Music,
Minnie Riperton,
Babytalk,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Slave,
Hot Snakes,
Robert Wyatt,
Dead Boys,
ABBA,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
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You don't know what you really want.
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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.