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 Milan.
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 1960 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Can to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz. All the underground hits.
All Isaac Hayes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pretty Things record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ultravox record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Underground Resistance,
Subhumans,
Von Mondo,
Soul II Soul,
Magma,
Jimmy McGriff,
the Normal,
Pussy Galore,
Pierre Henry,
Brand Nubian,
Lalann,
The Fire Engines,
Janne Schatter,
Connie Case,
Y Pants,
Lakeside,
The Slits,
Stereo Dub,
Porter Ricks,
Kenny Larkin,
X-102,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pere Ubu,
Pole,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Matthew Halsall,
Jacob Miller,
The Fall,
Sixth Finger,
Danielle Patucci,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Parry Music,
Joy Division,
The Modern Lovers,
Ossler,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Crash Course in Science,
Faraquet,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Clear Light,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Peter & Gordon,
ABC,
The J.B.'s,
Severed Heads,
The Sonics,
Sex Pistols,
Grandmaster Flash,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Nirvana,
Radiopuhelimet,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Curtis Mayfield,
Arthur Verocai,
The Searchers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Eddi Front,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.