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 Philippines and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Swell Maps to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Joe Smooth. All the underground hits.
All Marc Almond tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every FM Einheit 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an oboe 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 theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Kaleidoscope,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Five Americans,
EPMD,
Sexual Harrassment,
Arab on Radar,
Lalo Schifrin,
Easy Going,
The Cramps,
Grandmaster Flash,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sarah Menescal,
Jimmy McGriff,
The Fuzztones,
Niagra,
Judy Mowatt,
Whodini,
Junior Murvin,
Sound Behaviour,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
MC5,
Essential Logic,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Intrusion,
Bizarre Inc.,
Liliput,
Dead Boys,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Mummies,
FM Einheit,
Carl Craig,
In Retrospect,
One Last Wish,
Barbara Tucker,
Al Stewart,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
X-102,
Bad Manners,
Susan Cadogan,
Gang of Four,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Eurythmics,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Ohio Players,
Monolake,
Anakelly,
Interpol,
The Dirtbombs,
Pulsallama,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Marc Almond,
Eden Ahbez,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dorothy Ashby,
Duran Duran,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Agent Orange,
The Victims,
Zapp,
Minny Pops,
The Associates,
Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne, Lindisfarne.
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.