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 Burundi and from Mumbai.
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 Salvador and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1971 at the first Neu! practice in a loft in Düsseldorf.
I was working on the marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Qualms to the rock kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Aaron Thompson. All the underground hits.
All Ultimate Spinach tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every the Swans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lyres record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Symarip,
Blake Baxter,
Michelle Simonal,
Godley & Creme,
Todd Terry,
Alison Limerick,
Black Flag,
Metal Thangz,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
the Germs,
The Trojans,
The Human League,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Funky Four + One,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Moss Icon,
Camberwell Now,
Derrick Morgan,
Susan Cadogan,
Janne Schatter,
The Martian,
Massinfluence,
Scion,
The Last Poets,
Toni Rubio,
Y Pants,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Fad Gadget,
Rod Modell,
Minor Threat,
The Walker Brothers,
F. McDonald,
The Associates,
the Swans,
Peter and Kerry,
Swell Maps,
The Cowsills,
Soul Sonic Force,
Ultimate Spinach,
Scott Walker,
John Cale,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eric B and Rakim,
Soul II Soul,
Porter Ricks,
Gang Green,
Surgeon,
John Foxx,
Scratch Acid,
Angry Samoans,
Livin' Joy,
Stiv Bators,
Bluetip,
Lakeside,
Black Sheep,
Grandmaster Flash,
Mars,
The Sound,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sun Ra,
Minnie Riperton,
The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds, The Blackbyrds.
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.