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 Czech Republic and from Seoul.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the theremin 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 Lou Reed to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Boredoms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joey Negro record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Move,
Peter and Kerry,
Faust,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ohio Players,
The Golliwogs,
Thee Headcoats,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Todd Rundgren,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Hardrive,
Youth Brigade,
Masters at Work,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Liliput,
Sarah Menescal,
The Moleskins,
Magma,
The Stooges,
The Gladiators,
Eve St. Jones,
Crash Course in Science,
Jandek,
Johnny Clarke,
Talk Talk,
Funky Four + One,
Soft Machine,
The Neon Judgement,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lebanon Hanover,
Mandrill,
Max Romeo,
Simply Red,
Joy Division,
the Association,
Eurythmics,
Robert Görl,
Agitation Free,
Fat Boys,
JFA,
Ten City,
The Cramps,
Moebius,
Cecil Taylor,
Stetsasonic,
Vainqueur,
Wasted Youth,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Tres Demented,
Heaven 17,
The Wake,
Eli Mardock,
Donald Byrd,
Procol Harum,
Flash Fearless,
China Crisis,
Nirvana,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Stiv Bators,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance, Underground Resistance.
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.