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 Monaco and from Lyon.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 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 Tom Boy to the grunge 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 The Wake. All the underground hits.
All E-Dancer tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Procol Harum 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Con Funk Shun record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
The Moleskins,
Loose Ends,
The Young Rascals,
Boredoms,
Soul II Soul,
The Toasters,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Todd Terry,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
the Association,
R.M.O.,
Tim Buckley,
Joy Division,
Toni Rubio,
Robert Görl,
Henry Cow,
Reagan Youth,
Scrapy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Aloha Tigers,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Alton Ellis,
Q65,
Cal Tjader,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Kerrie Biddell,
Aswad,
Amon Düül II,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Aural Exciters,
Young Marble Giants,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Dual Sessions,
Marmalade,
Kerri Chandler,
Barry Ungar,
Los Fastidios,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Arthur Verocai,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Bob Dylan,
Kevin Saunderson,
Eve St. Jones,
Cluster,
Heaven 17,
The Fire Engines,
Malaria!,
John Holt,
8 Eyed Spy,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Babytalk,
Con Funk Shun,
Au Pairs,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Mark Hollis,
Bobby Sherman,
U.S. Maple,
the Human League,
Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran, Duran Duran.
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.