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 Netherlands and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 Lille and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 K-Klass to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
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 Fluxion record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a harpsichord.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Zero Boys,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Judy Mowatt,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Cramps,
Derrick May,
Section 25,
Jacob Miller,
Dead Boys,
Skaos,
Heaven 17,
Ice-T,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Monolake,
Mary Jane Girls,
Warsaw,
Bootsy Collins,
The Raincoats,
Cheater Slicks,
Altered Images,
Hasil Adkins,
Glambeats Corp.,
Dawn Penn,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Cymande,
Joensuu 1685,
Lalo Schifrin,
Terry Callier,
Jimmy McGriff,
Boz Scaggs,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Black Moon,
Lyres,
Flash Fearless,
Eric B and Rakim,
Jandek,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sun City Girls,
The Doobie Brothers,
Anakelly,
Lucky Dragons,
Man Parrish,
Surgeon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Young Marble Giants,
Minutemen,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Colin Newman,
Main Source,
Agitation Free,
World's Most,
The Mojo Men,
L. Decosne,
Robert Wyatt,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Clear Light,
Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas, Black Bananas.
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.