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 San Marino and from Cairo.
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 1961 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 John Holt to the techno 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 Silicon Teens. All the underground hits.
All Flipper tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Peter and Kerry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kas Product record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stiv Bators,
Qualms,
Simply Red,
Reagan Youth,
Panda Bear,
Radiohead,
Popol Vuh,
John Cale,
Byron Stingily,
Scratch Acid,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Roy Ayers,
Swans,
The Zeros,
Bobby Womack,
New Order,
Sam Rivers,
Eric B and Rakim,
Pet Shop Boys,
Yaz,
Jimmy McGriff,
R.M.O.,
Matthew Bourne,
Iggy Pop,
Yusef Lateef,
World's Most,
Fat Boys,
Magma,
Marc Almond,
Bluetip,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Bobby Hutcherson,
ABC,
Junior Murvin,
Mantronix,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Soft Machine,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
PIL,
Lalann,
Sound Behaviour,
Bobby Sherman,
Joe Finger,
The Seeds,
Joey Negro,
The Grass Roots,
Aaron Thompson,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Stetsasonic,
The Misunderstood,
The Human League,
The Happenings,
Ken Boothe,
Derrick Morgan,
Grauzone,
Todd Terry,
Crooked Eye,
The Leaves,
Circle Jerks,
Roxy Music,
Gang Green,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.