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 Solomon Islands and from Philadelphia.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Alice Coltrane to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Bananas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Charles Mingus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
New Age Steppers,
Television,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Gang of Four,
The Birthday Party,
Pagans,
Radiohead,
The Walker Brothers,
Average White Band,
Echospace,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Boogie Down Productions,
Simply Red,
Cybotron,
Marvin Gaye,
Jerry's Kids,
Judy Mowatt,
Peter & Gordon,
Minor Threat,
Glambeats Corp.,
Kenny Larkin,
The Moody Blues,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Offenders,
Hoover,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Kurtis Blow,
Mark Hollis,
Danielle Patucci,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Albert Ayler,
Wally Richardson,
The Stooges,
Brick,
Fugazi,
Monolake,
Agent Orange,
The Modern Lovers,
Excepter,
Kool Moe Dee,
8 Eyed Spy,
Cheater Slicks,
The Leaves,
Nation of Ulysses,
Joey Negro,
Q and Not U,
Radiopuhelimet,
Black Flag,
The Dead C,
The Tremeloes,
Gang Green,
Bill Wells,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Suicide,
Pantaleimon,
Jeff Lynne,
Infiniti,
Fat Boys,
The Velvet Underground,
Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars, Bang on a Can All-Stars.
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.