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 Zambia and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 güiro 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 The Gun Club to the grime 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 Jawbox. All the underground hits.
All Bizarre Inc. tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Richard Hell and the Voidoids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bluetip record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Robert Görl,
Make Up,
Moby Grape,
Tommy Roe,
Little Man,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Television,
Ten City,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
R.M.O.,
LL Cool J,
Gabor Szabo,
Country Teasers,
Infiniti,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Reagan Youth,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Saccharine Trust,
The Martian,
Stereo Dub,
Delta 5,
Quantec,
Scott Walker,
Sonic Youth,
Neu!,
Kayak,
John Foxx,
The Slits,
Nils Olav,
Glenn Branca,
The Red Krayola,
The Offenders,
Unwound,
Nick Fraelich,
Malaria!,
Man Parrish,
The Pop Group,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Move,
Toni Rubio,
Pulsallama,
The Dave Clark Five,
Tim Buckley,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Mummies,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Gories,
Gerry Rafferty,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
David McCallum,
Wally Richardson,
Michelle Simonal,
Talk Talk,
Bang On A Can,
K-Klass,
Sex Pistols,
Yusef Lateef,
Erasure,
Pere Ubu,
Niagra,
kango's stein massive,
Gong,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band, Manfred Mann's Earth Band.
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.