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 Accra.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Accra.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Buzzcocks to the dance kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Al Stewart tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grandmaster Flash record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 theremin and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mary Jane Girls record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hasil Adkins,
Loose Ends,
Organ,
The Raincoats,
Joey Negro,
Black Sheep,
The Fugs,
the Normal,
Maurizio,
The Fuzztones,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Quando Quango,
Marshall Jefferson,
Sandy B,
Anakelly,
Gang Green,
Outsiders,
Los Fastidios,
Spoonie Gee,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Stereo Dub,
Barbara Tucker,
New Age Steppers,
Underground Resistance,
Cal Tjader,
DNA,
Godley & Creme,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Pere Ubu,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Freddie Wadling,
Can,
Cheater Slicks,
Amon Düül II,
Reuben Wilson,
Jeru the Damaja,
Drive Like Jehu,
Kenny Larkin,
World's Most,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
the Sonics,
Dennis Brown,
Johnny Osbourne,
Robert Wyatt,
the Human League,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Pierre Henry,
Magazine,
Soft Machine,
Marine Girls,
Mark Hollis,
Gerry Rafferty,
Kevin Saunderson,
Gang Starr,
Jacob Miller,
Gregory Isaacs,
Dave Gahan,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Invisible,
U.S. Maple,
Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill, Andrew Hill.
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.