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 Japan and from Copenhagen.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1970 at the first Onyeabor practice in a loft in Enugu.
I was working on the organ 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 Erasure to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Outsiders. All the underground hits.
All Erykah Badu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Vogues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aaron Thompson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Janne Schatter,
The Searchers,
Wolf Eyes,
Saccharine Trust,
48th St. Collective,
Ossler,
Laurel Aitken,
Eden Ahbez,
Scientists,
The Knickerbockers,
Black Moon,
The Moody Blues,
Hardrive,
Marine Girls,
Intrusion,
Trumans Water,
Moby Grape,
World's Most,
Fat Boys,
Kas Product,
The Slits,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Second Layer,
F. McDonald,
Roxette,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Black Dice,
Sound Behaviour,
Pulsallama,
Kayak,
The Angels of Light,
Vladislav Delay,
Television Personalities,
Black Pus,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Joyce Sims,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Graham Central Station,
Aaron Thompson,
The Fire Engines,
OOIOO,
Theoretical Girls,
The Velvet Underground,
Suburban Knight,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Quadrant,
Morten Harket,
FM Einheit,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Arab on Radar,
Gang of Four,
Robert Wyatt,
Babytalk,
Dead Boys,
The Neon Judgement,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Mars,
Crispian St. Peters,
Das Ding,
Livin' Joy,
Alphaville,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord, Deepchord.
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.