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 Uzbekistan and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 theremin 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 Pantytec to the grime 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 Beasts of Bourbon. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Young Rascals record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kerri Chandler,
Visage,
The Birthday Party,
Arthur Verocai,
The Misunderstood,
Girls At Our Best!,
the Association,
Eric Copeland,
a-ha,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
In Retrospect,
Television Personalities,
The United States of America,
Nirvana,
Joe Finger,
The Raincoats,
World's Most,
Groovy Waters,
Barrington Levy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
cv313,
Jeff Lynne,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Fugs,
The Shadows of Knight,
Crispian St. Peters,
Joyce Sims,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Michelle Simonal,
Lyres,
Niagra,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Albert Ayler,
John Lydon,
The Red Krayola,
Spoonie Gee,
Kenny Larkin,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Suburban Knight,
The Searchers,
Panda Bear,
The Mojo Men,
Gabor Szabo,
The Gories,
Kas Product,
The Doors,
Minor Threat,
Todd Rundgren,
Dorothy Ashby,
Arcadia,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Minutemen,
Johnny Clarke,
The Durutti Column,
Sun Ra,
Pussy Galore,
Minnie Riperton,
Symarip,
Zapp,
Cecil Taylor,
The Monks,
Metal Thangz,
The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths, The Smiths.
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.