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 Guyana and from Sao Paulo.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Radiopuhelimet to the techno 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 Ultravox. All the underground hits.
All Eurythmics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rites of Spring 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Frankie Knuckles 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?
Arcadia,
Grandmaster Flash,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Davy DMX,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Outsiders,
Joy Division,
The Evens,
Gang Green,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Brand Nubian,
Frankie Knuckles,
Matthew Halsall,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Organ,
Girls At Our Best!,
Arthur Verocai,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Bob Dylan,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Donny Hathaway,
The Saints,
Jeru the Damaja,
E-Dancer,
Visage,
Iggy Pop,
Marmalade,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fuzztones,
Morten Harket,
Sandy B,
The Blues Magoos,
John Lydon,
Average White Band,
Funkadelic,
Gang of Four,
Ultravox,
Buzzcocks,
Dual Sessions,
Archie Shepp,
Bluetip,
48th St. Collective,
Excepter,
Urselle,
Sister Nancy,
Moss Icon,
Dark Day,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Jeff Lynne,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Blancmange,
Thompson Twins,
Eve St. Jones,
Amazonics,
Alice Coltrane,
Spandau Ballet,
Unwound,
The Black Dice,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One, Funky Four + One.
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.