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 Qatar and from Woodstock.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Lee Hazlewood to the crunk 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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All The Royal Family And The Poor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Jesus and Mary Chain record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Radiopuhelimet,
The Vogues,
David Axelrod,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Max Romeo,
Ronnie Foster,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Lou Christie,
Grauzone,
Lakeside,
Slave,
Marcia Griffiths,
Silicon Teens,
The United States of America,
Jerry's Kids,
Animal Collective,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Ronan,
Adolescents,
Soulsonic Force,
Franke,
The Divine Comedy,
Bronski Beat,
The J.B.'s,
Ossler,
The Gories,
Henry Cow,
Lou Reed,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Slits,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Tremeloes,
Yellowson,
Blossom Toes,
Traffic Nightmare,
London Community Gospel Choir,
X-102,
Camberwell Now,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
the Human League,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pylon,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Victims,
H. Thieme,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Dead Boys,
The Techniques,
Darondo,
Lindisfarne,
Shuggie Otis,
Essential Logic,
The Gladiators,
Magazine,
Tim Buckley,
Janne Schatter,
The Dirtbombs,
The Doors,
Nation of Ulysses,
Mark Hollis,
Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants, Y Pants.
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.