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 Cambodia and from Glasgow.
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 1962 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Isaac Hayes to the disco 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 Skriet. All the underground hits.
All Hashim tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every 10cc record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Anakelly record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Los Fastidios,
Interpol,
Man Parrish,
Toni Rubio,
Model 500,
Skarface,
Lightning Bolt,
Wally Richardson,
Fugazi,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Funkadelic,
Erykah Badu,
Radio Birdman,
Franke,
John Holt,
Letta Mbulu,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Newcleus,
Soft Cell,
Arthur Verocai,
Jerry's Kids,
Flamin' Groovies,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Birthday Party,
The Moleskins,
Dark Day,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Gap Band,
Bobby Byrd,
Black Sheep,
The Mummies,
Harmonia,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Martian,
Iggy Pop,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Monks,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gang Green,
Gichy Dan,
Warren Ellis,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Happenings,
the Soft Cell,
Chris & Cosey,
Tim Buckley,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Stiv Bators,
The Mojo Men,
The Tremeloes,
Buzzcocks,
Ken Boothe,
Rites of Spring,
Ronan,
Echospace,
Ohio Players,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Smoke,
Warsaw,
Pere Ubu,
Supertramp,
Lower 48,
The Flesh Eaters, The Flesh Eaters, The Flesh Eaters, The Flesh Eaters.
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.