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 South and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Make Up to the electroclash 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 Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme. All the underground hits.
All The Alarm Clocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Larry & the Blue Notes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer 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 oboe and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Infiniti,
Don Cherry,
The Fuzztones,
Robert Wyatt,
Alphaville,
Lebanon Hanover,
Crispy Ambulance,
Intrusion,
Flash Fearless,
Young Marble Giants,
Easy Going,
Gang Green,
Eli Mardock,
Delon & Dalcan,
Harpers Bizarre,
Black Flag,
Minor Threat,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Glambeats Corp.,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Faust,
The Gap Band,
Lower 48,
cv313,
Dorothy Ashby,
Barry Ungar,
A Certain Ratio,
The Kinks,
Depeche Mode,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Arab on Radar,
the Slits,
The Fortunes,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jeru the Damaja,
Suicide,
Barrington Levy,
PIL,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Animal Collective,
Cecil Taylor,
Flipper,
Buzzcocks,
Patti Smith,
X-102,
The Associates,
La Düsseldorf,
Slave,
Joey Negro,
Whodini,
Marine Girls,
Jeff Lynne,
Soulsonic Force,
David Bowie,
Theoretical Girls,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Rapeman,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon, Moss Icon.
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.