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 Honduras and from Accra.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Deadbeat to the jazz 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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All Bauhaus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Darondo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Pus,
Joensuu 1685,
Das Ding,
Agitation Free,
Ossler,
Toni Rubio,
Leonard Cohen,
Jeff Lynne,
Model 500,
Girls At Our Best!,
Lebanon Hanover,
the Association,
The Doobie Brothers,
Alphaville,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Rites of Spring,
The Vogues,
Kayak,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Knickerbockers,
Motorama,
The United States of America,
Guru Guru,
Desert Stars,
Brothers Johnson,
Swell Maps,
Wasted Youth,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Unwound,
Urselle,
Nirvana,
Thompson Twins,
Rosa Yemen,
Rapeman,
DNA,
Nico,
Gang of Four,
Colin Newman,
Q65,
F. McDonald,
FM Einheit,
Bobby Byrd,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
UT,
Country Teasers,
Gabor Szabo,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Matthew Halsall,
Idris Muhammad,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Gang Green,
Ralphi Rosario,
Anakelly,
The Stooges,
Soul II Soul,
Big Daddy Kane,
Organ,
Monks,
Tom Boy,
B.T. Express,
Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt, Lightning Bolt.
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.