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 Argentina and from Copenhagen.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Marmalade to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sällskapet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rapeman record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Depeche Mode,
Average White Band,
Young Marble Giants,
Loose Ends,
Ituana,
Robert Görl,
Fear,
Schoolly D,
These Immortal Souls,
Nico,
John Cale,
Bad Manners,
Sight & Sound,
Robert Hood,
Fad Gadget,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Grauzone,
The J.B.'s,
Lower 48,
The Moleskins,
Bobby Sherman,
Accadde A,
Buzzcocks,
Josef K,
Mo-Dettes,
Can,
the Sonics,
Eve St. Jones,
Pulsallama,
T. Rex,
Grandmaster Flash,
The Skatalites,
The Star Department,
Lou Christie,
Little Man,
Rod Modell,
E-Dancer,
Peter & Gordon,
Dennis Brown,
Motorama,
Sister Nancy,
Newcleus,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Organ,
The Slackers,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Cowsills,
The Velvet Underground,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The American Breed,
Lyres,
Banda Bassotti,
Ronnie Foster,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Boz Scaggs,
Stiv Bators,
Kenny Larkin,
Hasil Adkins,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.