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 Dominican Republic and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Television 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 Sonny Sharrock. All the underground hits.
All Excepter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zero Boys record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bizarre Inc. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Mojo Men,
The Litter,
One Last Wish,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Birthday Party,
Qualms,
Audionom,
Bluetip,
X-Ray Spex,
Niagra,
Marmalade,
Ralphi Rosario,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Aural Exciters,
Gang Gang Dance,
Black Moon,
Dead Boys,
Fear,
Easy Going,
Bobbi Humphrey,
D'Angelo,
The Walker Brothers,
Electric Prunes,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Kinks,
Gong,
Das Ding,
Bobby Sherman,
Thompson Twins,
The Gories,
John Cale,
Wire,
Soft Cell,
Sex Pistols,
Amon Düül,
The Alarm Clocks,
Dark Day,
Yazoo,
DJ Sneak,
the Bar-Kays,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
LL Cool J,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Flipper,
Kevin Saunderson,
Hardrive,
New York Dolls,
Popol Vuh,
Young Marble Giants,
Absolute Body Control,
Unrelated Segments,
Rekid,
Beasts of Bourbon,
La Düsseldorf,
Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens, Silicon Teens.
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.