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 Madagascar and from Milan.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 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 Bill Near to the electroclash 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 The Smiths. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Divine Comedy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lindisfarne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reuben Wilson,
Alton Ellis,
Visage,
The Pretty Things,
Bob Dylan,
Dennis Brown,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Blossom Toes,
The Toasters,
Yellowson,
Barbara Tucker,
Wire,
The Residents,
Tim Buckley,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Alarm Clocks,
Barrington Levy,
Audionom,
Boz Scaggs,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Ronnie Foster,
One Last Wish,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Slick Rick,
Joey Negro,
kango's stein massive,
The Gun Club,
Youth Brigade,
Panda Bear,
Section 25,
Lee Hazlewood,
Robert Wyatt,
Pulsallama,
The American Breed,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Moleskins,
Fugazi,
June of 44,
These Immortal Souls,
Mad Mike,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Deadbeat,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Happenings,
The Slits,
Black Pus,
Black Bananas,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
cv313,
The Moody Blues,
The Dead C,
The Trojans,
Warsaw,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Bauhaus,
Delta 5,
Ultravox,
the Fania All-Stars,
Drive Like Jehu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.