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 Netherlands and from Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 guitar 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 Organ to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Pole. All the underground hits.
All Gabor Szabo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jawbox record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barry Ungar record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lakeside,
Jimmy McGriff,
K-Klass,
PIL,
James White and The Blacks,
Michelle Simonal,
Leonard Cohen,
The Sonics,
Brand Nubian,
T. Rex,
Blake Baxter,
Erasure,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sarah Menescal,
Yazoo,
Wings,
Joe Finger,
The Searchers,
Accadde A,
Radiohead,
The Moody Blues,
Drive Like Jehu,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Jandek,
Radiopuhelimet,
Barbara Tucker,
Gong,
Matthew Bourne,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Buckinghams,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Hardrive,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Monks,
Dark Day,
Roger Hodgson,
Gang Gang Dance,
Eddi Front,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Grey Daturas,
The Names,
Howard Jones,
Idris Muhammad,
Goldenarms,
Piero Umiliani,
The Blackbyrds,
Silicon Teens,
Gang Starr,
Dual Sessions,
Pantytec,
Cybotron,
Audionom,
Barry Ungar,
The Residents,
The Selecter,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Glenn Branca,
Anthony Braxton,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Dead C,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.