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 Sweden and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Lalo Schifrin to the techno kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sparks. All the underground hits.
All Bang on a Can All-Stars tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dual Sessions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Wally Richardson,
New Order,
Girls At Our Best!,
Connie Case,
David Axelrod,
Al Stewart,
Black Sheep,
David Bowie,
Public Enemy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Inner City,
Minutemen,
Lalo Schifrin,
T.S.O.L.,
Marshall Jefferson,
Nation of Ulysses,
Pet Shop Boys,
Andrew Hill,
Iggy Pop,
The Gun Club,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Flash Fearless,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Flamin' Groovies,
Gang Starr,
The Tremeloes,
Delta 5,
Mr. Review,
Jandek,
Country Teasers,
Stiv Bators,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Pussy Galore,
The Busters,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Golliwogs,
Roy Ayers,
The Skatalites,
Alphaville,
Wire,
the Soft Cell,
Radiohead,
Arcadia,
Rakim,
Alice Coltrane,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Hasil Adkins,
Sight & Sound,
LL Cool J,
Reuben Wilson,
Yaz,
Josef K,
Patti Smith,
Jesper Dahlback,
Chrome,
EPMD,
Scan 7,
Jeru the Damaja,
8 Eyed Spy,
Freddie Wadling,
Lou Reed,
Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe, Ajijia Myrayebe.
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.