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 Guyana and from Lyon.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the oboe 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 The Invisible to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Scan 7 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alton Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Soft Cell,
Nils Olav,
Duran Duran,
Radio Birdman,
Scion,
Black Pus,
Sonic Youth,
Charles Mingus,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Flesh Eaters,
Hardrive,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Grey Daturas,
New Order,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Lower 48,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Associates,
The Raincoats,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Cowsills,
Rotary Connection,
Heaven 17,
John Holt,
Colin Newman,
The Sound,
Gregory Isaacs,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Toasters,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Lucky Dragons,
Eric Copeland,
Michelle Simonal,
The Dead C,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Bush Tetras,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Ituana,
Country Teasers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Y Pants,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Shadows of Knight,
Thee Headcoats,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Motorama,
The Searchers,
Infiniti,
Godley & Creme,
the Swans,
Crash Course in Science,
Zapp,
The Smoke,
The Seeds,
Skaos,
Joe Finger,
Flash Fearless,
Soul Sonic Force,
Excepter, Excepter, Excepter, Excepter.
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.