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 Nepal and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Paris.
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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Bad Manners to the electroclash 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 Deakin. All the underground hits.
All Flash Fearless tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nirvana record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Groovy Waters record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Electric Prunes,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Trumans Water,
Sun City Girls,
Tim Buckley,
The Trojans,
New York Dolls,
Von Mondo,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Neil Young,
Bill Wells,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Supertramp,
Zero Boys,
The Fall,
Barclay James Harvest,
David Bowie,
10cc,
Ohio Players,
Hardrive,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Grey Daturas,
Ronan,
Schoolly D,
Cheater Slicks,
Suicide,
Gang Starr,
Soft Cell,
Donny Hathaway,
DJ Sneak,
Ten City,
Roger Hodgson,
The Red Krayola,
Popol Vuh,
Marcia Griffiths,
Stetsasonic,
Todd Rundgren,
Robert Wyatt,
T. Rex,
Connie Case,
Severed Heads,
Aural Exciters,
Albert Ayler,
James White and The Blacks,
the Swans,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Cowsills,
Pharoah Sanders,
Marvin Gaye,
Radiohead,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Doors,
Rufus Thomas,
Chris & Cosey,
Desert Stars,
Kerrie Biddell,
Section 25,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy, 8 Eyed Spy.
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.