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 Zimbabwe and from Lagos.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide show in New York.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Alton Ellis to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Todd Rundgren. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oblivians record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Swans,
Brass Construction,
Bluetip,
Royal Trux,
Peter and Kerry,
The Doors,
Qualms,
Los Fastidios,
Panda Bear,
Tim Buckley,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Darondo,
Bad Manners,
Nick Fraelich,
Glenn Branca,
Malaria!,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Kerri Chandler,
Metal Thangz,
Ornette Coleman,
Steve Hackett,
Bobby Sherman,
Stiv Bators,
Dave Gahan,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Eve St. Jones,
Yazoo,
Pere Ubu,
Suburban Knight,
Matthew Bourne,
One Last Wish,
Spoonie Gee,
Albert Ayler,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ludus,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Barracudas,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Don Cherry,
Fear,
F. McDonald,
Rites of Spring,
Roxette,
Animal Collective,
Prince Buster,
Tubeway Army,
The Residents,
Kas Product,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Roxy Music,
Infiniti,
Big Daddy Kane,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Drive Like Jehu,
Clear Light,
The Saints,
Drexciya,
Sun Ra,
These Immortal Souls,
Maleditus Sound,
Silicon Teens,
Kenny Larkin,
Flamin' Groovies,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.