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 Nigeria and from Tokyo.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Copenhagen.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Amon Düül to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Lungfish. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Bar-Kays record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scion 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?
Erykah Badu,
Don Cherry,
Maurizio,
a-ha,
Rosa Yemen,
Little Man,
Popol Vuh,
Quadrant,
Sly & The Family Stone,
UT,
Bang On A Can,
Sound Behaviour,
Bizarre Inc.,
DJ Style,
Lalo Schifrin,
Visage,
The Five Americans,
L. Decosne,
Aaron Thompson,
Roy Ayers,
Albert Ayler,
Leonard Cohen,
La Düsseldorf,
Iggy Pop,
The Saints,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Franke,
The Count Five,
Nas,
The Red Krayola,
One Last Wish,
Traffic Nightmare,
Reuben Wilson,
Underground Resistance,
Brass Construction,
PIL,
cv313,
Kerrie Biddell,
New York Dolls,
the Germs,
The Gories,
Blancmange,
Scott Walker,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Monochrome Set,
Trumans Water,
Joe Finger,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Real Kids,
Carl Craig,
Y Pants,
Ituana,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Whodini,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eurythmics,
The Monks,
Absolute Body Control,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Black Flag,
Crispian St. Peters,
Sexual Harrassment,
Byron Stingily,
Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth, Sonic Youth.
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.