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 Mongolia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 organ 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 Khruangbin 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 Spandau Ballet. All the underground hits.
All Sunsets and Hearts tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hardrive 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unrelated Segments record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grey Daturas,
Rotary Connection,
Lindisfarne,
Erasure,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Theoretical Girls,
Avey Tare,
Soft Machine,
The Alarm Clocks,
Flipper,
Don Cherry,
Bizarre Inc.,
Gang Starr,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Reagan Youth,
The Skatalites,
Chris & Cosey,
Amon Düül,
Man Parrish,
Desert Stars,
Graham Central Station,
Black Bananas,
Cameo,
Minor Threat,
Tubeway Army,
Jandek,
Shuggie Otis,
Robert Hood,
The Smiths,
Lower 48,
Lyres,
Michelle Simonal,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Eric Copeland,
Arthur Verocai,
the Bar-Kays,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eric B and Rakim,
Matthew Halsall,
Bad Manners,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Techniques,
Quadrant,
Nick Fraelich,
Unrelated Segments,
Joe Finger,
The Residents,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Swans,
Brass Construction,
Wolf Eyes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Lou Christie,
Eden Ahbez,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Popol Vuh,
Ronnie Foster,
Japan,
Ituana, Ituana, Ituana, Ituana.
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.