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 Azerbaijan 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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 snare 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 Scrapy to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All Chrome tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Radiopuhelimet,
Cheater Slicks,
Skarface,
The Music Machine,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Roxy Music,
The Move,
Warren Ellis,
Amazonics,
Dark Day,
Mars,
Wolf Eyes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Quantec,
The Blues Magoos,
ABBA,
The Selecter,
Carl Craig,
Mo-Dettes,
Arab on Radar,
Colin Newman,
PIL,
The Names,
Buzzcocks,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sugar Minott,
Von Mondo,
Al Stewart,
Duran Duran,
Erasure,
Patti Smith,
Rosa Yemen,
D'Angelo,
The Invisible,
Soulsonic Force,
The Kinks,
Vladislav Delay,
U.S. Maple,
Frankie Knuckles,
Godley & Creme,
Slick Rick,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Das Ding,
Liliput,
Stockholm Monsters,
Symarip,
Idris Muhammad,
Soft Machine,
New Age Steppers,
Janne Schatter,
Scion,
Traffic Nightmare,
Prince Buster,
Cecil Taylor,
Altered Images,
Chris Corsano,
June Days,
The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs.
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.