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 Dominica and from Milan.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 guitar 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 The Angels of Light to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Byron Stingily. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Maleditus Sound 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Happenings record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Average White Band,
Colin Newman,
Grandmaster Flash,
Hashim,
Eric Dolphy,
Grey Daturas,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Q and Not U,
Terry Callier,
Fad Gadget,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Buzzcocks,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Star Department,
Desert Stars,
Max Romeo,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
The Flesh Eaters,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Half Japanese,
The American Breed,
Amazonics,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Blues Magoos,
Boogie Down Productions,
Davy DMX,
PIL,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Barrington Levy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
John Foxx,
Delon & Dalcan,
Yazoo,
Alison Limerick,
Ultra Naté,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
cv313,
Dennis Brown,
X-101,
Funky Four + One,
Basic Channel,
Mo-Dettes,
Girls At Our Best!,
Easy Going,
Altered Images,
Gastr Del Sol,
Juan Atkins,
a-ha,
Warsaw,
The Fire Engines,
The Angels of Light,
The New Christs,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sound Behaviour,
Sparks,
Boredoms,
Bauhaus,
Joensuu 1685,
Suicide,
Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry, Don Cherry.
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.