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 Cyprus and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 snare 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 Jawbox to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Ultimate Spinach. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton 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 a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Skaos,
Gregory Isaacs,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Nik Kershaw,
The Pretty Things,
Joey Negro,
Altered Images,
Aural Exciters,
Robert Görl,
Lower 48,
a-ha,
The Sound,
Soul Sonic Force,
Patti Smith,
Avey Tare,
Banda Bassotti,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Joensuu 1685,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Barclay James Harvest,
Gil Scott Heron,
Fear,
The Toasters,
Cymande,
Gang of Four,
The American Breed,
Urselle,
Public Image Ltd.,
Lee Hazlewood,
Albert Ayler,
Q65,
Bang On A Can,
Glenn Branca,
DJ Sneak,
Andrew Hill,
The Count Five,
Ponytail,
Amon Düül II,
Ronnie Foster,
Don Cherry,
The Slits,
Desert Stars,
Charles Mingus,
The Golliwogs,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Barbara Tucker,
T.S.O.L.,
Lucky Dragons,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Gerry Rafferty,
The Fire Engines,
Drexciya,
The Birthday Party,
Country Teasers,
Inner City,
Shoche,
The Monks,
Trumans Water,
Little Man,
Derrick May,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Lightning Bolt,
the Association, the Association, the Association, the Association.
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.