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 Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1962 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Lou Reed 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 Jandek to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Connie Case. All the underground hits.
All Funkadelic tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Standells record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonny Sharrock 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?
Pere Ubu,
Girls At Our Best!,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Terrestrial Tones,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Trojans,
June of 44,
Oneida,
Boogie Down Productions,
Aaron Thompson,
The Durutti Column,
Rekid,
Black Sheep,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Fuzztones,
Deadbeat,
Hot Snakes,
A Certain Ratio,
Darondo,
Pantaleimon,
Scratch Acid,
Kayak,
Gang Starr,
Massinfluence,
Infiniti,
Interpol,
The Velvet Underground,
Barry Ungar,
Letta Mbulu,
Marcia Griffiths,
Patti Smith,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Fire Engines,
Harry Pussy,
Sarah Menescal,
Anthony Braxton,
Brothers Johnson,
Joy Division,
Gang Gang Dance,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
David McCallum,
The Human League,
Quantec,
Groovy Waters,
The Evens,
Roy Ayers,
Nico,
Goldenarms,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Dirtbombs,
Oblivians,
Schoolly D,
Rosa Yemen,
Parry Music,
Reuben Wilson,
Gabor Szabo,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Monolake,
Fear,
Albert Ayler,
Gong,
Bronski Beat,
LL Cool J,
The Monks, The Monks, The Monks, The Monks.
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.