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 Denmark and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 marimba 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 Sixth Finger to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Ossler. All the underground hits.
All Roy Ayers Ubiquity tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Human League record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Raincoats record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Electric Prunes,
The Skatalites,
Funkadelic,
China Crisis,
Cybotron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
John Cale,
Davy DMX,
Isaac Hayes,
Gil Scott Heron,
Gong,
Saccharine Trust,
Spoonie Gee,
Deepchord,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Last Poets,
Gang Green,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
D'Angelo,
Roxy Music,
kango's stein massive,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Basic Channel,
Byron Stingily,
Warren Ellis,
Lou Christie,
DJ Style,
Kaleidoscope,
Groovy Waters,
B.T. Express,
The Buckinghams,
The Saints,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Young Rascals,
Kerri Chandler,
Motorama,
Amon Düül,
Niagra,
Second Layer,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sugar Minott,
Buzzcocks,
Ituana,
Altered Images,
Pantytec,
The Walker Brothers,
U.S. Maple,
Q and Not U,
Albert Ayler,
Tres Demented,
The Birthday Party,
Das Ding,
Mary Jane Girls,
Average White Band,
Danielle Patucci,
Drexciya,
June of 44,
Cymande,
Todd Rundgren,
Swans,
Bush Tetras,
Fad Gadget,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.