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 Latvia and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 theremin 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 The Velvet Underground to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Arthur Verocai. All the underground hits.
All Tim Buckley tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q65 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minutemen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wolf Eyes,
Agent Orange,
The J.B.'s,
Model 500,
Roxy Music,
Leonard Cohen,
Joe Smooth,
The Durutti Column,
Fear,
Toni Rubio,
Thompson Twins,
Lakeside,
The Pretty Things,
Crispy Ambulance,
Aural Exciters,
Nils Olav,
The Searchers,
The Fall,
The Divine Comedy,
Gang of Four,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Con Funk Shun,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Jimmy McGriff,
Monks,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Joey Negro,
Procol Harum,
Circle Jerks,
L. Decosne,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Standells,
World's Most,
Rosa Yemen,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Gories,
Funky Four + One,
Shuggie Otis,
Peter & Gordon,
Yusef Lateef,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Lungfish,
Jandek,
The Tremeloes,
Lower 48,
Michelle Simonal,
Basic Channel,
Q and Not U,
Flipper,
Eden Ahbez,
Boogie Down Productions,
Kas Product,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Victims,
MDC,
Section 25,
Stiv Bators,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Ultimate Spinach,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul, Soul II Soul.
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.