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 Nicaragua and from New York.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 808 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Grass Roots 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a John Cale record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gregory Isaacs,
Drive Like Jehu,
Infiniti,
Minutemen,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Icehouse,
Bang On A Can,
Sonic Youth,
Black Sheep,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
DJ Sneak,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Detroit Cobras,
Chris Corsano,
Visage,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Skarface,
Deakin,
The Buckinghams,
Frankie Knuckles,
In Retrospect,
Minnie Riperton,
Fad Gadget,
Gastr Del Sol,
Eric Dolphy,
10cc,
The Count Five,
The American Breed,
Ultravox,
The Offenders,
The Gap Band,
CMW,
Procol Harum,
Gil Scott Heron,
Josef K,
Trumans Water,
Ronan,
48th St. Collective,
Glenn Branca,
Faust,
Dawn Penn,
Amon Düül,
Japan,
Crooked Eye,
Dave Gahan,
Grandmaster Flash,
Derrick May,
The Fortunes,
New Age Steppers,
Flipper,
Suicide,
T.S.O.L.,
Harpers Bizarre,
Jesper Dahlback,
Scratch Acid,
Lindisfarne,
Supertramp,
Gang Gang Dance,
Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses, Liaisons Dangereuses.
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.