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 Dominica and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Glambeats Corp. to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Kas Product. All the underground hits.
All OOIOO tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every EPMD record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Major Organ And The Adding Machine record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Das Ding,
Tears for Fears,
The J.B.'s,
Metal Thangz,
Chris & Cosey,
Sixth Finger,
Young Marble Giants,
The Velvet Underground,
Pet Shop Boys,
Franke,
These Immortal Souls,
Erasure,
Girls At Our Best!,
Iggy Pop,
Tres Demented,
Cameo,
Jandek,
The Modern Lovers,
Peter and Kerry,
Siglo XX,
Toni Rubio,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
E-Dancer,
Ralphi Rosario,
Josef K,
Public Enemy,
Quando Quango,
Lower 48,
The Pretty Things,
Matthew Halsall,
Byron Stingily,
Dark Day,
Ten City,
Bronski Beat,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Black Dice,
Japan,
The Associates,
The Fall,
DJ Style,
Peter & Gordon,
Lou Reed,
The Gap Band,
The Monks,
A Certain Ratio,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Goldenarms,
Marshall Jefferson,
Fluxion,
The Golliwogs,
UT,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Skaos,
The Misunderstood,
Ultravox,
The Star Department,
Wally Richardson,
Surgeon,
Shoche,
The Skatalites,
Connie Case,
Supertramp,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft, Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft.
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.