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 Costa Rica and from Spokane.
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 1960 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Manila.
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 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 Donald Fagen 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 Idris Muhammad to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Unwound. All the underground hits.
All Suicide tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pylon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Christie,
Dorothy Ashby,
John Foxx,
Lakeside,
Television,
Sister Nancy,
Nirvana,
Cluster,
Donny Hathaway,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Nation of Ulysses,
Drive Like Jehu,
Aural Exciters,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Flamin' Groovies,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eddi Front,
Alice Coltrane,
Hot Snakes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Al Stewart,
Gichy Dan,
Todd Terry,
The Motions,
Main Source,
Aloha Tigers,
Steve Hackett,
Accadde A,
Pantytec,
The Music Machine,
Swans,
MDC,
the Sonics,
James White and The Blacks,
Amazonics,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Charles Mingus,
Rod Modell,
John Holt,
Alton Ellis,
Gregory Isaacs,
Soulsonic Force,
Scientists,
Deepchord,
This Heat,
Popol Vuh,
Deadbeat,
Q and Not U,
the Slits,
FM Einheit,
ABBA,
X-101,
Drexciya,
Inner City,
The Zeros,
Mark Hollis,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Gap Band,
F. McDonald,
The Cramps,
the Human League, the Human League, the Human League, the Human League.
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.