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 Botswana and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Kas Product to the rock 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 The United States of America. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Morten Harket record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cheater Slicks,
Albert Ayler,
Delon & Dalcan,
Jandek,
Lower 48,
Eric Dolphy,
Eyeless In Gaza,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Grass Roots,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Stereo Dub,
Blake Baxter,
Skarface,
Yellowson,
Japan,
Mr. Review,
Flamin' Groovies,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Scan 7,
The Velvet Underground,
Sparks,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
the Swans,
X-Ray Spex,
Soul Sonic Force,
Lakeside,
Janne Schatter,
The Red Krayola,
Black Sheep,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kevin Saunderson,
Swans,
The Searchers,
OOIOO,
Duran Duran,
The Real Kids,
Gang Gang Dance,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Nas,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Warren Ellis,
John Cale,
Nik Kershaw,
Lebanon Hanover,
Anthony Braxton,
cv313,
The Saints,
Gang Starr,
Deepchord,
Drive Like Jehu,
Grandmaster Flash,
Alphaville,
Ludus,
Ultra Naté,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Massinfluence,
Eurythmics,
Can,
Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry.
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.