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 Guatemala and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 oboe 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 Jandek to the rap 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 Wolf Eyes. All the underground hits.
All De La Soul & Jungle Brothers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mr. Review record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Intrusion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sarah Menescal,
Simply Red,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Index,
Buzzcocks,
ABC,
Section 25,
Main Source,
China Crisis,
Groovy Waters,
La Düsseldorf,
Slick Rick,
The Birthday Party,
The Sonics,
the Association,
Rapeman,
Accadde A,
Barrington Levy,
FM Einheit,
Altered Images,
48th St. Collective,
The Moleskins,
Erasure,
Janne Schatter,
Harmonia,
Iggy Pop,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Mummies,
Traffic Nightmare,
Japan,
The Searchers,
Boredoms,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Grass Roots,
LL Cool J,
Lungfish,
Quantec,
Todd Terry,
10cc,
Kurtis Blow,
Gang of Four,
Grey Daturas,
Avey Tare,
Thompson Twins,
Marc Almond,
Maurizio,
Von Mondo,
Massinfluence,
Duran Duran,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The New Christs,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Scrapy,
A Certain Ratio,
Au Pairs,
Talk Talk,
cv313,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators, Stiv Bators.
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.