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 Austria and from Bologna.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Dawn Penn to the crunk 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 Soft Cell. All the underground hits.
All Sister Nancy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalo Schifrin record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an oboe and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Arthur Verocai record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Television Personalities,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Youth Brigade,
Gang Starr,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Skatalites,
Aural Exciters,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Moss Icon,
Bootsy Collins,
In Retrospect,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Shoche,
Sällskapet,
Roger Hodgson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Vainqueur,
Pantaleimon,
The Smoke,
Colin Newman,
Avey Tare,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Fuzztones,
Jacob Miller,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Y Pants,
Joy Division,
Yaz,
Tom Boy,
Jesper Dahlback,
Crooked Eye,
The Young Rascals,
Lee Hazlewood,
Black Moon,
Niagra,
The Seeds,
Soft Cell,
Ultra Naté,
Supertramp,
Wolf Eyes,
the Sonics,
Amazonics,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Piero Umiliani,
New Order,
Bluetip,
Panda Bear,
Faust,
Pylon,
UT,
Eve St. Jones,
Pere Ubu,
Glenn Branca,
The Golliwogs,
Procol Harum,
Darondo,
Slick Rick,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Marine Girls,
The Divine Comedy,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.