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 France and from Woodstock.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Blackbyrds to the dance 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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All The Standells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tears for Fears 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Thompson Twins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
the Slits,
Talk Talk,
Boz Scaggs,
Agitation Free,
Max Romeo,
Roxette,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Selecter,
Can,
Anakelly,
Minutemen,
Henry Cow,
Boredoms,
John Cale,
Nas,
One Last Wish,
Bauhaus,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Judy Mowatt,
In Retrospect,
Ohio Players,
Gerry Rafferty,
John Lydon,
The Busters,
Marvin Gaye,
Harpers Bizarre,
Bang On A Can,
Scott Walker,
The Smiths,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Massinfluence,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Happenings,
The Residents,
Sight & Sound,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Peter & Gordon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Leonard Cohen,
Spoonie Gee,
Gang Starr,
Iggy Pop,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Dawn Penn,
The Tremeloes,
Barry Ungar,
The Fire Engines,
Ten City,
Tubeway Army,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Connie Case,
Matthew Halsall,
Average White Band,
Ice-T,
La Düsseldorf,
Camberwell Now,
Hashim,
B.T. Express,
Japan,
Anthony Braxton,
Lightning Bolt,
Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear, Panda Bear.
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.