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 Dominica and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 2001 at the first Tiga practice in a loft in Montreal.
I was working on the synthesizer 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 Lakeside to the grunge 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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All The Durutti Column tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Icehouse 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Neil Young & Crazy Horse record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Coltrane,
Franke,
MC5,
Lucky Dragons,
F. McDonald,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Crooked Eye,
Camouflage,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Little Man,
Accadde A,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ten City,
Rosa Yemen,
Bobby Byrd,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Roxy Music,
Slave,
Q65,
Parry Music,
Skaos,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Public Image Ltd.,
Country Teasers,
Simply Red,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Reuben Wilson,
Idris Muhammad,
Davy DMX,
Oblivians,
Funkadelic,
Groovy Waters,
The Doors,
The Fire Engines,
Danielle Patucci,
Vainqueur,
Au Pairs,
The Slits,
Silicon Teens,
Kool Moe Dee,
Jeff Mills,
Piero Umiliani,
Lalann,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Boredoms,
the Soft Cell,
Model 500,
David McCallum,
Matthew Bourne,
T.S.O.L.,
Fatback Band,
Prince Buster,
Procol Harum,
Janne Schatter,
Sam Rivers,
The Evens,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Wake,
Echospace,
Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu, Erykah Badu.
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.