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 Costa Rica and from Bologna.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 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 Johnny Clarke to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Johnny Clarke. All the underground hits.
All Roxette tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hoover record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Talk Talk record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Blackbyrds,
The Dave Clark Five,
Amon Düül II,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
the Sonics,
The Shadows of Knight,
Godley & Creme,
Nico,
James White and The Blacks,
Funky Four + One,
The Gories,
Organ,
Peter & Gordon,
Todd Terry,
The Detroit Cobras,
Radiopuhelimet,
Ossler,
Loose Ends,
Fugazi,
Easy Going,
UT,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sällskapet,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Drexciya,
Second Layer,
John Cale,
Franke,
Idris Muhammad,
Make Up,
Colin Newman,
Albert Ayler,
Hot Snakes,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Michelle Simonal,
The Monochrome Set,
Kool Moe Dee,
Radiohead,
the Soft Cell,
Man Parrish,
The Index,
Warren Ellis,
Dennis Brown,
Cymande,
Negative Approach,
Donald Byrd,
Lou Reed,
Ornette Coleman,
Sandy B,
Crash Course in Science,
Cal Tjader,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
T. Rex,
The Gap Band,
Half Japanese,
Electric Prunes,
Harpers Bizarre,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Slackers,
The Alarm Clocks,
Eden Ahbez,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.