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 Kyrgyzstan and from Lagos.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Halifax.
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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 The Gun Club to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Boredoms. All the underground hits.
All The Royal Family And The Poor tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Susan Cadogan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Monks record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
One Last Wish,
Jandek,
Scrapy,
The Gories,
These Immortal Souls,
Stiv Bators,
June of 44,
Lyres,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rod Modell,
Trumans Water,
The Mojo Men,
Eve St. Jones,
Second Layer,
The Shadows of Knight,
Cheater Slicks,
The Seeds,
John Lydon,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Maleditus Sound,
The Mummies,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
UT,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Deakin,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Radio Birdman,
Johnny Osbourne,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Soulsonic Force,
Malaria!,
Marine Girls,
Joe Finger,
Crash Course in Science,
The Neon Judgement,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Ohio Players,
Lightning Bolt,
Letta Mbulu,
Marmalade,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Brass Construction,
Gang Starr,
Minutemen,
Robert Görl,
Kas Product,
Michelle Simonal,
Bluetip,
New York Dolls,
James White and The Blacks,
the Fania All-Stars,
Slick Rick,
Neil Young,
ABBA,
Scratch Acid,
The Saints,
Harmonia,
Brand Nubian,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic, Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic.
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.