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 Iran and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Warren Ellis to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Be Bop Deluxe. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Accadde A record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gories,
The Dead C,
Toni Rubio,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Minnie Riperton,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Piero Umiliani,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Funky Four + One,
Blossom Toes,
The Leaves,
Skarface,
The Modern Lovers,
Godley & Creme,
Curtis Mayfield,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Gang Starr,
Youth Brigade,
Chris & Cosey,
Spoonie Gee,
Gang of Four,
Can,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
June Days,
The Black Dice,
Underground Resistance,
Flash Fearless,
Angry Samoans,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Pole,
Heaven 17,
Ken Boothe,
Crash Course in Science,
Sonic Youth,
The Skatalites,
Terrestrial Tones,
Negative Approach,
Thee Headcoats,
The Grass Roots,
Marshall Jefferson,
Amazonics,
New York Dolls,
Pere Ubu,
Peter and Kerry,
Motorama,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Davy DMX,
Anthony Braxton,
Al Stewart,
Altered Images,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Public Enemy,
Roxette,
Nation of Ulysses,
One Last Wish,
Rod Modell,
Quadrant,
Alice Coltrane,
The Angels of Light,
Fluxion,
Nik Kershaw,
Gichy Dan,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.