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 Romania and from Paris.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the oboe 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 Eden Ahbez to the techno 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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Goldenarms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every OOIOO 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Isaac Hayes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mandrill,
Lightning Bolt,
Funkadelic,
The Human League,
The Remains,
Leonard Cohen,
Johnny Osbourne,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Lakeside,
Scott Walker,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Techniques,
Mark Hollis,
Pantytec,
Albert Ayler,
Schoolly D,
Neu!,
Rosa Yemen,
Bill Near,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Graham Central Station,
The Residents,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
DJ Sneak,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Charles Mingus,
Skriet,
Audionom,
Lou Reed,
Kool Moe Dee,
These Immortal Souls,
Nick Fraelich,
The Real Kids,
Josef K,
The Walker Brothers,
Saccharine Trust,
the Germs,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dave Gahan,
David Axelrod,
Sun Ra,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Knickerbockers,
Eve St. Jones,
Maurizio,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Todd Rundgren,
Gang of Four,
Smog,
Kayak,
Malaria!,
Letta Mbulu,
Radiopuhelimet,
Nico,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lou Christie,
The Star Department,
Joey Negro,
Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike, Mad Mike.
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.