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 Singapore and from Sao Paulo.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 organ 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 Fort Wilson Riot to the rap kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Q65. All the underground hits.
All D'Angelo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Urselle record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 a snare and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Erasure record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Drive Like Jehu,
Porter Ricks,
The Smoke,
Television Personalities,
Derrick Morgan,
Eve St. Jones,
The Skatalites,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Brand Nubian,
Pierre Henry,
The Fortunes,
World's Most,
Nick Fraelich,
The Gladiators,
Al Stewart,
Lou Reed,
Quantec,
Laurel Aitken,
Fluxion,
Ten City,
Audionom,
Colin Newman,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Moebius,
Ronan,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sunsets and Hearts,
DJ Sneak,
The Tremeloes,
Minny Pops,
the Bar-Kays,
Flipper,
The Last Poets,
Zero Boys,
The Alarm Clocks,
8 Eyed Spy,
Black Flag,
Lou Christie,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Isaac Hayes,
Masters at Work,
L. Decosne,
The New Christs,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Buckinghams,
Sun Ra,
Arab on Radar,
The Monochrome Set,
Talk Talk,
Steve Hackett,
Brass Construction,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Joyce Sims,
The Associates,
Dual Sessions,
Wally Richardson,
Peter & Gordon,
Hashim,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Names,
The Shadows of Knight,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless, Flash Fearless.
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.