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 New Zealand and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 linndrum 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 American Breed. All the underground hits.
All Soulsonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy's Rubber Band record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zapp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Michelle Simonal,
Reagan Youth,
Smog,
Maleditus Sound,
Sonny Sharrock,
Rekid,
The Neon Judgement,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Black Bananas,
Gang of Four,
L. Decosne,
The Skatalites,
Danielle Patucci,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
John Holt,
Ralphi Rosario,
Steve Hackett,
Ronan,
Slick Rick,
The Last Poets,
Colin Newman,
Fluxion,
Soft Cell,
The Doors,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Technova,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Hashim,
Infiniti,
Althea and Donna,
Fatback Band,
The Cure,
Gastr Del Sol,
Amon Düül II,
The Golliwogs,
The Gun Club,
The Moleskins,
Tubeway Army,
The Wake,
The Birthday Party,
Interpol,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Peter and Kerry,
Alton Ellis,
Altered Images,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Dead Boys,
Rites of Spring,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
U.S. Maple,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Gichy Dan,
The Index,
Urselle,
Scan 7,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Happenings,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.