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 Jamaica and from Beijing.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Jandek to the grunge kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Minor Threat. All the underground hits.
All Lebanon Hanover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Seeds 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Faust,
Pharoah Sanders,
Yaz,
Negative Approach,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Metal Thangz,
Jimmy McGriff,
Second Layer,
The Toasters,
Jandek,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Young Rascals,
Absolute Body Control,
The Gap Band,
Henry Cow,
Bill Wells,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Jerry's Kids,
Boz Scaggs,
ABBA,
Main Source,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Gong,
Black Flag,
Man Parrish,
Charles Mingus,
Hardrive,
Ronan,
Brick,
Adolescents,
Dorothy Ashby,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Albert Ayler,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Derrick Morgan,
Sixth Finger,
The Blues Magoos,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Blackbyrds,
Fela Kuti,
Nick Fraelich,
The J.B.'s,
The Modern Lovers,
Avey Tare,
Marvin Gaye,
The Move,
Smog,
Johnny Clarke,
UT,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Radio Birdman,
Tropical Tobacco,
Ultimate Spinach,
Crash Course in Science,
FM Einheit,
Sonic Youth,
Kaleidoscope,
Derrick May,
Yellowson,
Goldenarms,
David McCallum,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.