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 Suriname and from Taipei.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the organ 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 Pylon to the rap 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 The Doors. All the underground hits.
All Hoover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Au Pairs 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gichy Dan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Human League,
Carl Craig,
Isaac Hayes,
Morten Harket,
Erasure,
The Neon Judgement,
Slick Rick,
The Flesh Eaters,
Porter Ricks,
Steve Hackett,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Second Layer,
Smog,
Pagans,
Rod Modell,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
OOIOO,
Arcadia,
Roy Ayers,
Shoche,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Sugar Minott,
Gerry Rafferty,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Can,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lower 48,
F. McDonald,
the Association,
JFA,
Bronski Beat,
Pole,
Kevin Saunderson,
Delta 5,
Albert Ayler,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Eve St. Jones,
Metal Thangz,
Mr. Review,
Arab on Radar,
Deepchord,
Average White Band,
Bill Near,
Bob Dylan,
Scrapy,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Marshall Jefferson,
Outsiders,
Kool Moe Dee,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Boogie Down Productions,
New York Dolls,
Rekid,
Eric Dolphy,
Gastr Del Sol,
Sexual Harrassment,
Ossler,
The Skatalites,
Aloha Tigers,
Nico, Nico, Nico, Nico.
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.