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 Mexico and from Mumbai.
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 1961 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 KRS-One to the rock kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Sällskapet. All the underground hits.
All Sound Behaviour tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cheater Slicks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 a 808 and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joey Negro record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Normal,
New Age Steppers,
Franke,
Saccharine Trust,
Radiohead,
Youth Brigade,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Smog,
Index,
Minnie Riperton,
Sixth Finger,
Ohio Players,
Camberwell Now,
The Litter,
Fifty Foot Hose,
X-Ray Spex,
Shuggie Otis,
Pylon,
The Dead C,
Oblivians,
Junior Murvin,
Kerrie Biddell,
AZ,
Heaven 17,
Glambeats Corp.,
Thee Headcoats,
Maurizio,
cv313,
the Human League,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Stockholm Monsters,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Banda Bassotti,
Subhumans,
Eddi Front,
Todd Terry,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Livin' Joy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Henry Cow,
OOIOO,
China Crisis,
Ten City,
Derrick Morgan,
Warren Ellis,
Rhythm & Sound,
Robert Görl,
Roxy Music,
Dawn Penn,
Nirvana,
Angry Samoans,
Scion,
The Barracudas,
Dark Day,
The Birthday Party,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Procol Harum,
Pharoah Sanders,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.