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 Uzbekistan and from Portland.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1977 at the first Human League practice in a loft in Sheffield.
I was working on the organ 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 Grey Daturas 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 Subhumans. All the underground hits.
All Aloha Tigers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every kango's stein massive record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boz Scaggs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gang of Four,
Quando Quango,
Chris & Cosey,
Unrelated Segments,
Gang Gang Dance,
Faraquet,
Soul II Soul,
Marine Girls,
Mars,
The Martian,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Pole,
Second Layer,
Monks,
Hashim,
Gang Green,
Stockholm Monsters,
Television Personalities,
Bizarre Inc.,
Sexual Harrassment,
Loose Ends,
The Gap Band,
Joe Smooth,
Radiopuhelimet,
Interpol,
Technova,
Drive Like Jehu,
B.T. Express,
Black Bananas,
John Coltrane,
Echospace,
AZ,
Suicide,
Moss Icon,
Royal Trux,
David Axelrod,
Ornette Coleman,
The Velvet Underground,
Soul Sonic Force,
Black Moon,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Howard Jones,
Lalo Schifrin,
Joensuu 1685,
Flipper,
Jeff Mills,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
X-101,
Kayak,
Rapeman,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Jawbox,
Reuben Wilson,
James White and The Blacks,
Neu!,
Urselle,
Terrestrial Tones,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Infiniti,
June Days,
Scott Walker,
The Five Americans,
Visage,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.