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 Cyprus and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1964 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Quadrant 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 Moby Grape. All the underground hits.
All Lalo Schifrin tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Busters 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Sisters of Mercy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dennis Brown,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Vladislav Delay,
Warsaw,
The Golliwogs,
John Holt,
China Crisis,
R.M.O.,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Delon & Dalcan,
K-Klass,
48th St. Collective,
Aswad,
Donald Byrd,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lalann,
Lucky Dragons,
Underground Resistance,
Lou Christie,
Kayak,
Flamin' Groovies,
New York Dolls,
Pussy Galore,
Sexual Harrassment,
Bootsy Collins,
Rites of Spring,
Anthony Braxton,
The Offenders,
Au Pairs,
The Mojo Men,
Patti Smith,
The Last Poets,
Severed Heads,
the Soft Cell,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Slits,
Skarface,
Schoolly D,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Crime,
Gerry Rafferty,
Visage,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Altered Images,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Yellowson,
ABC,
Sandy B,
Fluxion,
Eric B and Rakim,
Joe Finger,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
These Immortal Souls,
John Lydon,
kango's stein massive,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Banda Bassotti,
Robert Wyatt,
Amazonics,
Television Personalities,
The Cure,
The Star Department,
Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale, Lou Reed & John Cale.
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.