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 Mauritius and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Minor Threat to the funk 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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Technova tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Oneida 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Durutti Column,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Searchers,
Harry Pussy,
Wally Richardson,
Stereo Dub,
Barclay James Harvest,
Aswad,
Los Fastidios,
Television,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Lakeside,
Blake Baxter,
Joey Negro,
Morten Harket,
Heaven 17,
Johnny Osbourne,
Yaz,
The Cramps,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Quantec,
Minor Threat,
K-Klass,
Wire,
The Barracudas,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Alarm Clocks,
Nas,
Groovy Waters,
David McCallum,
Visage,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Banda Bassotti,
The New Christs,
The Buckinghams,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Zeros,
Cheater Slicks,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sonny Sharrock,
Skarface,
Supertramp,
Public Image Ltd.,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Newcleus,
Bronski Beat,
The Standells,
Subhumans,
Derrick Morgan,
Gichy Dan,
Monolake,
The Monks,
Peter and Kerry,
This Heat,
Neil Young,
Grandmaster Flash,
Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance, Crispy Ambulance.
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.