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 Madagascar and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bang on a Can All-Stars to the techno kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Dual Sessions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every In Retrospect record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ken Boothe,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Yusef Lateef,
Eric B and Rakim,
Curtis Mayfield,
Archie Shepp,
Young Marble Giants,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Busters,
U.S. Maple,
John Coltrane,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Drexciya,
Joe Finger,
Wally Richardson,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sonic Youth,
Sister Nancy,
Godley & Creme,
CMW,
New Order,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Slackers,
The Happenings,
Blake Baxter,
Bill Wells,
The Motions,
Monks,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Animal Collective,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Freddie Wadling,
The Toasters,
Faust,
T. Rex,
Jerry's Kids,
Brick,
Saccharine Trust,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Mr. Review,
Qualms,
Lee Hazlewood,
Lightning Bolt,
Bizarre Inc.,
Althea and Donna,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Suburban Knight,
Aaron Thompson,
L. Decosne,
Anakelly,
MDC,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Tubeway Army,
Erykah Badu,
Cal Tjader,
This Heat,
Bobby Byrd,
DJ Style,
Deepchord,
The Grass Roots,
Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding, Das Ding.
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.