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 Uganda and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 Portland and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Vainqueur to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Dual Sessions. All the underground hits.
All Moebius tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Evens 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ituana record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
The Detroit Cobras,
Wings,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Tremeloes,
Das Ding,
Alphaville,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Banda Bassotti,
Newcleus,
The Music Machine,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Cheater Slicks,
Suicide,
Jesper Dahlback,
Lungfish,
Quadrant,
Glambeats Corp.,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Sight & Sound,
The Barracudas,
Terry Callier,
The Modern Lovers,
Skriet,
Television Personalities,
Warsaw,
Eric Dolphy,
the Germs,
Popol Vuh,
David McCallum,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Yaz,
Con Funk Shun,
The Misunderstood,
The Cure,
The Remains,
Al Stewart,
Mo-Dettes,
The Fugs,
Neil Young,
Harpers Bizarre,
Boz Scaggs,
Kas Product,
KRS-One,
Kevin Saunderson,
Masters at Work,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Black Dice,
Girls At Our Best!,
Skarface,
Monks,
Quantec,
Symarip,
Delon & Dalcan,
Joy Division,
OOIOO,
Basic Channel,
Second Layer,
Peter & Gordon,
Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja, Jeru the Damaja.
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.