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 Suriname and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Lyres to the funk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Hardrive. All the underground hits.
All Morten Harket tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every It's A Beautiful Day record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dual Sessions,
Derrick May,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeru the Damaja,
Silicon Teens,
Buzzcocks,
Cybotron,
John Coltrane,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Smiths,
Icehouse,
Scientists,
Marc Almond,
Wolf Eyes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Minor Threat,
ABBA,
ABC,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Bang On A Can,
Arthur Verocai,
Tubeway Army,
10cc,
Idris Muhammad,
Brass Construction,
Kool Moe Dee,
Liliput,
DJ Style,
Cheater Slicks,
Scion,
Boz Scaggs,
Crime,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Model 500,
Black Bananas,
MDC,
Blake Baxter,
Gregory Isaacs,
Joe Smooth,
Mark Hollis,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Offenders,
Soft Cell,
Aaron Thompson,
Shoche,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Kayak,
Spandau Ballet,
Tears for Fears,
Roy Ayers,
Rotary Connection,
Oblivians,
Theoretical Girls,
Jandek,
Scrapy,
Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti, Fela Kuti.
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.