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 Togo and from Shanghai.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 rhodes 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 Vladislav Delay to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Barrington Levy. All the underground hits.
All Bill Wells tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Real Kids record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crash Course in Science record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Terry,
Fugazi,
Inner City,
8 Eyed Spy,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
L. Decosne,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Crime,
Lucky Dragons,
Livin' Joy,
Prince Buster,
David McCallum,
China Crisis,
The Neon Judgement,
The Real Kids,
Grauzone,
Deepchord,
ABBA,
Masters at Work,
Negative Approach,
Eric Copeland,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Todd Rundgren,
Kenny Larkin,
Donald Byrd,
Bad Manners,
Max Romeo,
Soft Machine,
Agent Orange,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Porter Ricks,
The Techniques,
David Bowie,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Eric Dolphy,
The Fire Engines,
Jerry's Kids,
Man Parrish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Essential Logic,
Schoolly D,
The Seeds,
Glenn Branca,
One Last Wish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Amon Düül,
cv313,
Dark Day,
Kurtis Blow,
X-101,
Cluster,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Soul Sonic Force,
Eden Ahbez,
Traffic Nightmare,
the Human League,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Busters,
Jesper Dahlback,
Matthew Halsall,
Tropical Tobacco,
Excepter,
Los Fastidios,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.