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 Mexico and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Faust to the rock 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 Jandek. All the underground hits.
All Fugazi tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fela Kuti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an organ and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Wally Richardson,
Panda Bear,
Skaos,
a-ha,
Roxette,
Lindisfarne,
the Soft Cell,
Sister Nancy,
Con Funk Shun,
Flash Fearless,
Sex Pistols,
Country Teasers,
Jimmy McGriff,
Ten City,
The Gladiators,
Model 500,
Khruangbin,
Juan Atkins,
Mr. Review,
Pussy Galore,
Spandau Ballet,
Robert Hood,
Terry Callier,
The Cowsills,
The Neon Judgement,
Roxy Music,
The Raincoats,
Eden Ahbez,
Connie Case,
Interpol,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Stereo Dub,
The Victims,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ken Boothe,
Drive Like Jehu,
Marc Almond,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Blossom Toes,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pierre Henry,
The Last Poets,
Easy Going,
Bobby Womack,
T.S.O.L.,
Glenn Branca,
Absolute Body Control,
The Divine Comedy,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Anakelly,
Lucky Dragons,
Peter and Kerry,
Kenny Larkin,
Los Fastidios,
Joensuu 1685,
Hot Snakes,
The Sonics,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.