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 Colombia and from Philadelphia.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bologna 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the linndrum 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 Sly & The Family Stone to the disco 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 Monochrome Set. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Motorama 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ossler 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?
The Dead C,
Marshall Jefferson,
Danielle Patucci,
Brothers Johnson,
Crispy Ambulance,
PIL,
DNA,
Monolake,
Moss Icon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Soul Sonic Force,
48th St. Collective,
Radiohead,
Fluxion,
L. Decosne,
The Seeds,
The Gun Club,
Brass Construction,
Procol Harum,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Five Americans,
Loose Ends,
Reuben Wilson,
Kenny Larkin,
Lungfish,
Gil Scott Heron,
Sällskapet,
Johnny Osbourne,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
the Human League,
H. Thieme,
Excepter,
Schoolly D,
Rotary Connection,
Roxette,
Alton Ellis,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The United States of America,
Banda Bassotti,
Barclay James Harvest,
Dennis Brown,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Josef K,
Nico,
Urselle,
Tears for Fears,
Delta 5,
UT,
Marvin Gaye,
Rosa Yemen,
Soul II Soul,
Basic Channel,
Minutemen,
Pulsallama,
Average White Band,
The Evens,
Alison Limerick,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
The Red Krayola,
MDC,
Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat, Deadbeat.
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.