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 Laos and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 güiro 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 Minutemen to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All The Star Department tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 guitar and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hoover record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Cabaret Voltaire,
Matthew Halsall,
John Holt,
The Knickerbockers,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Joe Finger,
Roxy Music,
Pussy Galore,
Sixth Finger,
Harmonia,
Michelle Simonal,
Skriet,
the Swans,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Andrew Hill,
The Misunderstood,
Wings,
Matthew Bourne,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Arcadia,
Public Image Ltd.,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Eric Dolphy,
Adolescents,
Camberwell Now,
The Gap Band,
Alice Coltrane,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Modern Lovers,
Jerry's Kids,
Moby Grape,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Gregory Isaacs,
The Tremeloes,
Scrapy,
The Young Rascals,
Soft Cell,
Camouflage,
The Remains,
Dark Day,
Funkadelic,
Severed Heads,
Marmalade,
Saccharine Trust,
T.S.O.L.,
Jandek,
Byron Stingily,
The Gladiators,
Gong,
Gang of Four,
Heaven 17,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Make Up,
The Saints,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Blues Magoos,
The Shadows of Knight,
OOIOO,
The Slits,
Ultravox,
Boogie Down Productions,
Scientists,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.