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 Burkina and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 arpeggiator 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 Moss Icon to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 T.S.O.L.. All the underground hits.
All Gian Franco Pienzio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Panda Bear record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
Black Flag,
Guru Guru,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Joy Division,
Lucky Dragons,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
F. McDonald,
Chris Corsano,
Sonic Youth,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Terry Callier,
The Electric Prunes,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
L. Decosne,
Fluxion,
Fat Boys,
Visage,
Amon Düül II,
John Holt,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Alton Ellis,
Jeru the Damaja,
Sex Pistols,
The Evens,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Motions,
Gong,
Brass Construction,
Barbara Tucker,
Section 25,
Theoretical Girls,
Bang On A Can,
Icehouse,
Grauzone,
The J.B.'s,
D'Angelo,
Terrestrial Tones,
Unrelated Segments,
The Star Department,
Scientists,
Quando Quango,
Pylon,
The Misunderstood,
The Pop Group,
Panda Bear,
The Divine Comedy,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Idris Muhammad,
T. Rex,
Magazine,
Kaleidoscope,
Khruangbin,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rakim,
Ohio Players,
OOIOO,
Main Source,
Skarface, Skarface, Skarface, Skarface.
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.