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 Mongolia and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Scientists to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Little Man record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fire Engines,
The Modern Lovers,
Model 500,
Bad Manners,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
L. Decosne,
Panda Bear,
The Mighty Diamonds,
MC5,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Agitation Free,
Ten City,
The Victims,
The Kinks,
Unwound,
The Grass Roots,
Vladislav Delay,
Zero Boys,
Nico,
Rhythm & Sound,
Letta Mbulu,
Pole,
Eli Mardock,
Joy Division,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Q and Not U,
The Stooges,
Curtis Mayfield,
Black Pus,
Hoover,
Nation of Ulysses,
Skaos,
Jacques Brel,
The Human League,
The Sonics,
Thee Headcoats,
Radiopuhelimet,
Boz Scaggs,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Warsaw,
World's Most,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Moss Icon,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
These Immortal Souls,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Detroit Cobras,
the Bar-Kays,
B.T. Express,
Quantec,
Flamin' Groovies,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Saints,
China Crisis,
Gang Gang Dance,
Prince Buster,
Junior Murvin,
The Mummies,
Lungfish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton, Anthony Braxton.
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.