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 Syria and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 guitar 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 Popol Vuh to the crunk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Skaos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Siglo XX record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 rhodes and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fuzztones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David McCallum,
Simply Red,
Arthur Verocai,
Aloha Tigers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Organ,
Swans,
Jerry's Kids,
Rites of Spring,
Ten City,
Charles Mingus,
Sonic Youth,
Depeche Mode,
Newcleus,
The Monochrome Set,
Oneida,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
John Coltrane,
Barclay James Harvest,
Steve Hackett,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Bobby Womack,
The Electric Prunes,
Lower 48,
Patti Smith,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ice-T,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Radiohead,
Young Marble Giants,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Moebius,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Groovy Waters,
Pylon,
Todd Rundgren,
Soft Cell,
Thompson Twins,
The Gladiators,
Agitation Free,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Slits,
Malaria!,
Los Fastidios,
Throbbing Gristle,
Dave Gahan,
Silicon Teens,
Blancmange,
Sparks,
Brick,
Magma,
The Cramps,
Kaleidoscope,
PIL,
The Cure,
The Fuzztones,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.