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 Indonesia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Little Man to the punk 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 Bobbi Humphrey. All the underground hits.
All Kaleidoscope tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pierre Henry record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Adolescents record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Audionom,
Parry Music,
Ronnie Foster,
Grandmaster Flash,
Cal Tjader,
Sonic Youth,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Arthur Verocai,
Accadde A,
Ken Boothe,
The Fugs,
The Velvet Underground,
Ossler,
Marc Almond,
The Leaves,
Pylon,
The Shadows of Knight,
New Age Steppers,
The Kinks,
Patti Smith,
These Immortal Souls,
The Monochrome Set,
Jeff Mills,
Moby Grape,
Peter and Kerry,
The Gladiators,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Yazoo,
K-Klass,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Stiv Bators,
the Normal,
Cameo,
The Knickerbockers,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Scrapy,
Godley & Creme,
Maurizio,
Newcleus,
The Move,
Iggy Pop,
The Offenders,
Marshall Jefferson,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Glambeats Corp.,
Tim Buckley,
Amon Düül II,
The Dave Clark Five,
Heaven 17,
Robert Hood,
Quantec,
kango's stein massive,
X-102,
Kool Moe Dee,
Cluster,
The Slackers,
The Cure,
KRS-One,
John Foxx,
Johnny Osbourne,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.