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 Mali 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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Big Daddy Kane to the punk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Second Layer. All the underground hits.
All Qualms tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kurtis Blow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Sonics,
Saccharine Trust,
Joy Division,
The Pop Group,
The Cosmic Jokers,
JFA,
Bobby Byrd,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Joyce Sims,
Crooked Eye,
Ronan,
Theoretical Girls,
The Gladiators,
Warren Ellis,
Lower 48,
Rufus Thomas,
Metal Thangz,
Sonny Sharrock,
Ten City,
Aswad,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Doors,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scott Walker,
MC5,
The Vogues,
Neil Young,
Depeche Mode,
Black Sheep,
Funky Four + One,
The Fuzztones,
Audionom,
Porter Ricks,
Cal Tjader,
Henry Cow,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Tommy Roe,
The Neon Judgement,
New Age Steppers,
AZ,
Niagra,
Silicon Teens,
Fad Gadget,
Chris Corsano,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Victims,
The Barracudas,
Morten Harket,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Flesh Eaters,
Outsiders,
Cecil Taylor,
CMW,
Freddie Wadling,
Public Enemy,
The Sisters of Mercy,
10cc,
Angry Samoans,
Peter and Kerry,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic, Stetsasonic.
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.