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 Italy and from Hong Kong.
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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Music Machine to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Hoover. All the underground hits.
All The Chocolate Watch Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cybotron record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 chamberlin and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Saccharine Trust record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Joensuu 1685,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Scratch Acid,
Joey Negro,
Goldenarms,
Leonard Cohen,
Quadrant,
the Association,
Kas Product,
Mr. Review,
David Axelrod,
Glambeats Corp.,
Anthony Braxton,
Fatback Band,
LL Cool J,
Minny Pops,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rekid,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Dirtbombs,
Wire,
AZ,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Fad Gadget,
Jimmy McGriff,
Albert Ayler,
H. Thieme,
CMW,
Qualms,
Pantytec,
PIL,
The Offenders,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Robert Hood,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Faust,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Gichy Dan,
Vladislav Delay,
Fugazi,
Marmalade,
Moebius,
Eurythmics,
Spandau Ballet,
Connie Case,
Darondo,
Ken Boothe,
The Motions,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rotary Connection,
10cc,
The Zeros,
Excepter,
Boogie Down Productions,
Wally Richardson,
The Divine Comedy,
Sound Behaviour,
Rhythm & Sound,
the Slits,
Echospace,
Black Flag,
Hot Snakes,
Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones, Eve St. Jones.
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.