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 Monaco and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Human League show in Sheffield.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 synthesizer 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 New Age Steppers to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Marine Girls. All the underground hits.
All DNA tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Drive Like Jehu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oneida record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eden Ahbez,
Con Funk Shun,
Cluster,
Nick Fraelich,
The Gories,
Brass Construction,
Mission of Burma,
Minutemen,
Prince Buster,
Harpers Bizarre,
Shuggie Otis,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Ronnie Foster,
Ituana,
Morten Harket,
Soulsonic Force,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Blake Baxter,
Bobby Sherman,
Hot Snakes,
Avey Tare,
Cecil Taylor,
Sixth Finger,
The Motions,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ultra Naté,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Tubeway Army,
Donny Hathaway,
cv313,
Max Romeo,
Swans,
Johnny Clarke,
The Tremeloes,
Unwound,
Bad Manners,
The Detroit Cobras,
DJ Sneak,
Scrapy,
Zero Boys,
AZ,
The Blues Magoos,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Searchers,
ABBA,
Suicide,
The Durutti Column,
Nirvana,
Country Teasers,
Rotary Connection,
The Standells,
The Sonics,
Index,
Pulsallama,
Pharoah Sanders,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Von Mondo,
Stereo Dub,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.