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 Korea North and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1966 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 spring reverb 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 Mark Hollis to the electroclash 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 Urselle. All the underground hits.
All Malaria! tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Goldenarms 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ken Boothe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Arthur Verocai,
Cal Tjader,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Neil Young,
Oneida,
Traffic Nightmare,
Fat Boys,
Pharoah Sanders,
Fela Kuti,
Moss Icon,
Q65,
New Order,
Nick Fraelich,
In Retrospect,
Parry Music,
Tommy Roe,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Unrelated Segments,
LL Cool J,
The Mojo Men,
Vladislav Delay,
Delon & Dalcan,
Siglo XX,
Essential Logic,
E-Dancer,
Youth Brigade,
The Gladiators,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Surgeon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bluetip,
The Real Kids,
Mark Hollis,
Zero Boys,
Soul Sonic Force,
Wings,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sex Pistols,
Danielle Patucci,
Ice-T,
The Searchers,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Rekid,
Make Up,
Technova,
Rites of Spring,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rakim,
Sarah Menescal,
Matthew Halsall,
Marshall Jefferson,
Blake Baxter,
Derrick Morgan,
Harry Pussy,
The Martian, The Martian, The Martian, The Martian.
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.