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 Belgium and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1965 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 theremin 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 Toni Rubio to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Swans. All the underground hits.
All The Grass Roots tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Zapp 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barbara Tucker record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Main Source,
Avey Tare,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
L. Decosne,
Ossler,
Massinfluence,
The Dead C,
Roy Ayers,
Barrington Levy,
Kayak,
Jawbox,
The Evens,
Harmonia,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Ultimate Spinach,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Kerrie Biddell,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Quando Quango,
Derrick Morgan,
Bizarre Inc.,
Toni Rubio,
Second Layer,
Lower 48,
Wolf Eyes,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rotary Connection,
Lou Christie,
The Blues Magoos,
Metal Thangz,
Qualms,
These Immortal Souls,
Model 500,
The Gladiators,
Fad Gadget,
The Barracudas,
The Stooges,
Simply Red,
Thompson Twins,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Five Americans,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Sällskapet,
Althea and Donna,
Suburban Knight,
Piero Umiliani,
Gichy Dan,
Soft Cell,
The Neon Judgement,
The Tremeloes,
the Swans,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Carl Craig,
Girls At Our Best!,
Swans,
Sparks,
Barry Ungar,
Shoche,
Barbara Tucker,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.