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 Tuvalu and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Byron Stingily to the jazz 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 the Germs. All the underground hits.
All Main Source tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra Arkestra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Johnny Osbourne,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Simply Red,
Dennis Brown,
New Age Steppers,
Derrick Morgan,
The Red Krayola,
Jandek,
Alphaville,
Mandrill,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Stetsasonic,
David McCallum,
Negative Approach,
Con Funk Shun,
Gichy Dan,
Barbara Tucker,
Pulsallama,
Jeff Lynne,
the Human League,
Eric B and Rakim,
Radiopuhelimet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Reuben Wilson,
Black Moon,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Warren Ellis,
D'Angelo,
PIL,
Hot Snakes,
China Crisis,
The Last Poets,
Second Layer,
Babytalk,
the Germs,
Crash Course in Science,
Terrestrial Tones,
Harry Pussy,
Thee Headcoats,
Cecil Taylor,
The United States of America,
The Dirtbombs,
Laurel Aitken,
The J.B.'s,
Charles Mingus,
Minny Pops,
Schoolly D,
Lightning Bolt,
Rosa Yemen,
Fela Kuti,
Electric Prunes,
The Fugs,
Bobby Sherman,
Delta 5,
David Bowie,
Sugar Minott,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen, Echo & the Bunnymen.
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.