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 Indonesia and from Beijing.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 harpsichord 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 The Remains to the dance 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All The Jesus and Mary Chain tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 marimba and a rhodes and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Negative Approach record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Eli Mardock,
Howard Jones,
The Tremeloes,
Harry Pussy,
Mark Hollis,
Skriet,
Boz Scaggs,
Johnny Clarke,
Parry Music,
Shuggie Otis,
Flamin' Groovies,
Outsiders,
Kaleidoscope,
EPMD,
The Young Rascals,
Schoolly D,
Boogie Down Productions,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Quantec,
Absolute Body Control,
Procol Harum,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Loose Ends,
Chris Corsano,
The Gun Club,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Johnny Osbourne,
Mars,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rotary Connection,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Half Japanese,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Zeros,
Sex Pistols,
Gang Green,
Popol Vuh,
Youth Brigade,
Thompson Twins,
CMW,
Aaron Thompson,
Donny Hathaway,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Television Personalities,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Jandek,
MC5,
Piero Umiliani,
Erasure,
Pulsallama,
Man Eating Sloth,
Donald Byrd,
Rhythm & Sound,
Al Stewart,
Niagra,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Modern Lovers,
Connie Case,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.