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 Malta and from Edmonton.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Evens to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Black Dice. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Agitation Free,
Neil Young,
Isaac Hayes,
Soul Sonic Force,
Fat Boys,
Technova,
Camouflage,
Masters at Work,
Das Ding,
Althea and Donna,
OOIOO,
Moebius,
Pierre Henry,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
New Age Steppers,
Alice Coltrane,
Hardrive,
Desert Stars,
Heaven 17,
Essential Logic,
ABC,
Schoolly D,
Joey Negro,
Anthony Braxton,
Janne Schatter,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Fugs,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pole,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Juan Atkins,
Peter & Gordon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
F. McDonald,
Oblivians,
Pylon,
Sam Rivers,
DJ Style,
Sparks,
Massinfluence,
Funky Four + One,
The Fortunes,
Average White Band,
Darondo,
Animal Collective,
John Lydon,
The Dave Clark Five,
Anakelly,
Marcia Griffiths,
the Sonics,
Interpol,
Depeche Mode,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Tom Boy,
Adolescents,
Arab on Radar,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Maleditus Sound,
Glambeats Corp.,
Dennis Brown,
Skriet,
The Human League,
Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control, Absolute Body Control.
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.