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 the UAE and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sun Ra Arkestra to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 UT. All the underground hits.
All Au Pairs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Minor Threat record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Smog record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Fat Boys,
Goldenarms,
Youth Brigade,
Infiniti,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
the Soft Cell,
Alison Limerick,
Derrick May,
Panda Bear,
Whodini,
Adolescents,
FM Einheit,
Ultra Naté,
Brand Nubian,
Main Source,
Howard Jones,
Faraquet,
Trumans Water,
Crooked Eye,
Lakeside,
The Zeros,
The Saints,
Joe Finger,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Mantronix,
Albert Ayler,
Sugar Minott,
the Swans,
Dorothy Ashby,
June of 44,
The Divine Comedy,
Franke,
Eli Mardock,
Quantec,
John Foxx,
The Real Kids,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Essential Logic,
The Dave Clark Five,
The J.B.'s,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Wire,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Wolf Eyes,
Lalo Schifrin,
R.M.O.,
Barry Ungar,
Kaleidoscope,
Deadbeat,
China Crisis,
Lalann,
Altered Images,
Tubeway Army,
Ronnie Foster,
The Evens,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Neil Young,
Joy Division,
One Last Wish,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.