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 Monaco and from Houston.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Lebanon Hanover to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All Ohio Players tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a One Last Wish record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Delta 5,
Brass Construction,
Inner City,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Stetsasonic,
The Count Five,
10cc,
Ronnie Foster,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
The Gun Club,
The Fall,
The Zeros,
Lindisfarne,
Cal Tjader,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Smiths,
DJ Style,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Beau Brummels,
The Techniques,
KRS-One,
The Vogues,
Animal Collective,
Wings,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Michelle Simonal,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Cure,
the Slits,
Ultra Naté,
Barbara Tucker,
the Sonics,
Yellowson,
Technova,
The Black Dice,
Scan 7,
Visage,
The Detroit Cobras,
Ohio Players,
Angry Samoans,
Piero Umiliani,
Qualms,
Silicon Teens,
Todd Terry,
The Barracudas,
Crispian St. Peters,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Electric Prunes,
Derrick May,
Chris & Cosey,
a-ha,
Lou Reed,
Albert Ayler,
Marshall Jefferson,
Kenny Larkin,
Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton, Minnie Riperton.
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.