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 Taiwan and from Lille.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 Holger Czukay 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 Sandy B to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Make Up. All the underground hits.
All David Axelrod tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Fugazi record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Groovy Waters,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Circle Jerks,
Section 25,
Clear Light,
Quadrant,
Joy Division,
Television,
Matthew Bourne,
Pagans,
OOIOO,
Boredoms,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Swans,
Arcadia,
Fatback Band,
Outsiders,
Intrusion,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
8 Eyed Spy,
Rosa Yemen,
kango's stein massive,
Charles Mingus,
Tommy Roe,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Terrestrial Tones,
Skaos,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Avey Tare,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Toasters,
Organ,
Lebanon Hanover,
Absolute Body Control,
Subhumans,
The Searchers,
Scan 7,
Brick,
the Swans,
Chris Corsano,
Babytalk,
Royal Trux,
Kevin Saunderson,
Pere Ubu,
Little Man,
Gabor Szabo,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Red Krayola,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
CMW,
The Barracudas,
The Move,
Lungfish,
Mandrill,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jacques Brel,
Todd Terry,
Pet Shop Boys,
Cal Tjader,
Brothers Johnson,
Hardrive, Hardrive, Hardrive, Hardrive.
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.