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 Lithuania and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 sitar 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 Colin Newman to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Eurythmics. All the underground hits.
All Bang On A Can tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Youth Brigade record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Leaves record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Hasil Adkins,
The Saints,
Kas Product,
Gong,
Vainqueur,
Crooked Eye,
Zero Boys,
Lindisfarne,
Spandau Ballet,
Youth Brigade,
The Dirtbombs,
Buzzcocks,
Gang Gang Dance,
Mark Hollis,
Nick Fraelich,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Agent Orange,
Chrome,
The Beau Brummels,
LL Cool J,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Golliwogs,
Eric Dolphy,
Au Pairs,
Bang On A Can,
Marcia Griffiths,
JFA,
Steve Hackett,
Harmonia,
Y Pants,
China Crisis,
Theoretical Girls,
Terry Callier,
E-Dancer,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Nico,
The Neon Judgement,
K-Klass,
Fugazi,
The Pretty Things,
DNA,
Unwound,
Howard Jones,
Kaleidoscope,
Marvin Gaye,
Surgeon,
Flash Fearless,
John Cale,
Gabor Szabo,
Johnny Clarke,
Spoonie Gee,
The Names,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Aloha Tigers,
Porter Ricks,
The New Christs,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Selecter,
Swans,
The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers, The Walker Brothers.
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.