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 Somalia and from Columbus.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 synthesizer 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 Severed Heads to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Flash Fearless. All the underground hits.
All Graham Central Station tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Qualms record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ajijia Myrayebe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
Das Ding,
Jeff Mills,
Television Personalities,
Leonard Cohen,
Black Sheep,
Man Eating Sloth,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Livin' Joy,
Absolute Body Control,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Quadrant,
La Düsseldorf,
Peter & Gordon,
Monks,
Nation of Ulysses,
the Soft Cell,
Suburban Knight,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Flamin' Groovies,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Al Stewart,
Ludus,
Q and Not U,
Hardrive,
Nico,
Lou Reed,
Barrington Levy,
Kerri Chandler,
Camberwell Now,
The Divine Comedy,
Derrick May,
Jacques Brel,
This Heat,
Mr. Review,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Susan Cadogan,
Ten City,
The Blackbyrds,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Moebius,
Chrome,
The Moleskins,
Flash Fearless,
One Last Wish,
Bobby Sherman,
The Grass Roots,
The Techniques,
Lou Christie,
The Knickerbockers,
Malaria!,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Prince Buster,
ABBA,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Josef K,
The Searchers,
Gil Scott Heron,
Young Marble Giants,
Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu, Drive Like Jehu.
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.