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 Chile and from Bremen.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Hong Kong.
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 1976 at the first Soft Boys practice in a loft in Cambridge.
I was working on the theremin 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 Panda Bear to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All Liliput tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joe Smooth record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Surgeon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
La Düsseldorf,
Adolescents,
Zapp,
Country Teasers,
Carl Craig,
Echospace,
Dual Sessions,
Symarip,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
DNA,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Malaria!,
Hoover,
The Human League,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Cymande,
Nils Olav,
Angry Samoans,
Gang of Four,
The Litter,
The Toasters,
June of 44,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
David McCallum,
The Cure,
Flipper,
Livin' Joy,
Alice Coltrane,
Altered Images,
Minny Pops,
Alison Limerick,
Boz Scaggs,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Groovy Waters,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Pantytec,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Yellowson,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Terrestrial Tones,
U.S. Maple,
Bill Wells,
the Soft Cell,
Scan 7,
the Normal,
Banda Bassotti,
Andrew Hill,
Chris & Cosey,
10cc,
The Victims,
Grandmaster Flash,
Arab on Radar,
The Gladiators,
Isaac Hayes,
Lyres,
Aaron Thompson,
Deadbeat,
Metal Thangz,
KRS-One,
Clear Light,
Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed, Lou Reed.
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.