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 Kuwait and from Bremen.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 chamberlin 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 the Association to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Minutemen. All the underground hits.
All Rekid tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Art Ensemble Of Chicago record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Skaos record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes 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?
Big Daddy Kane,
Blake Baxter,
Stiv Bators,
Brand Nubian,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Unrelated Segments,
Marcia Griffiths,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Trumans Water,
Skaos,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Oblivians,
Glenn Branca,
The Offenders,
Hoover,
Duran Duran,
The Skatalites,
Swans,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Victims,
Von Mondo,
H. Thieme,
Second Layer,
Flipper,
Warren Ellis,
The Doobie Brothers,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Gladiators,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Fortunes,
Lindisfarne,
Chris Corsano,
New Order,
the Association,
Dark Day,
Deepchord,
KRS-One,
Absolute Body Control,
The J.B.'s,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Electric Prunes,
DJ Sneak,
Howard Jones,
Procol Harum,
Bobby Sherman,
Magazine,
Brothers Johnson,
Tres Demented,
Terry Callier,
Porter Ricks,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gerry Rafferty,
Todd Rundgren,
Gang of Four,
The Slackers,
DNA,
Quando Quango,
David Bowie,
The Saints,
Bob Dylan,
Wire,
Interpol,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.