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 Ghana and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the linndrum 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 The Moleskins to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All John Foxx tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Foxx 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 snare and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Litter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
kango's stein massive,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Human League,
Susan Cadogan,
Negative Approach,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Groovy Waters,
Lungfish,
X-102,
Roger Hodgson,
Blancmange,
Unwound,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Japan,
Aaron Thompson,
Bobbi Humphrey,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Gerry Rafferty,
The American Breed,
The Busters,
F. McDonald,
Iggy Pop,
Fluxion,
Duran Duran,
Vladislav Delay,
Easy Going,
8 Eyed Spy,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Loose Ends,
Eden Ahbez,
Mark Hollis,
Animal Collective,
Tom Boy,
Fat Boys,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Blackbyrds,
The Martian,
The J.B.'s,
Gichy Dan,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Deadbeat,
Goldenarms,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Sun City Girls,
Bobby Byrd,
Flamin' Groovies,
Suicide,
The Standells,
The Gories,
Ponytail,
Talk Talk,
Tim Buckley,
T.S.O.L.,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Saints,
Eddi Front,
These Immortal Souls,
Peter and Kerry,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.