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 Iran and from Accra.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Michael McDonald 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 Unrelated Segments to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All The Real Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Aswad record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Smiths,
Peter and Kerry,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Quadrant,
The Stooges,
Eden Ahbez,
Wally Richardson,
Leonard Cohen,
X-Ray Spex,
New York Dolls,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Golliwogs,
Tom Boy,
Scan 7,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Inner City,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Saints,
Glenn Branca,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Saccharine Trust,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Todd Terry,
Ralphi Rosario,
DJ Sneak,
The Red Krayola,
Stereo Dub,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bill Near,
Suicide,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
This Heat,
X-101,
Toni Rubio,
Piero Umiliani,
Depeche Mode,
Brand Nubian,
cv313,
Popol Vuh,
Ludus,
Kaleidoscope,
The Techniques,
Public Image Ltd.,
Black Sheep,
Throbbing Gristle,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Yellowson,
Ultimate Spinach,
The Wake,
Stiv Bators,
Maleditus Sound,
Cybotron,
June of 44,
Qualms,
Delta 5,
Audionom,
Alphaville,
Clear Light,
Das Ding,
The Alarm Clocks,
Yaz,
Masters at Work,
Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters, Aural Exciters.
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.