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 Iceland and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the marimba 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 Leaves to the electroclash 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 Gichy Dan. All the underground hits.
All Suburban Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gang Gang Dance record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 harpsichord and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a cv313 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Parry Music,
Kas Product,
Kaleidoscope,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Smog,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Monochrome Set,
Albert Ayler,
The Count Five,
Oneida,
Black Moon,
Heaven 17,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fluxion,
Camberwell Now,
Icehouse,
Skarface,
Brothers Johnson,
Hashim,
Kayak,
Sun Ra,
Altered Images,
Trumans Water,
Rekid,
CMW,
JFA,
Connie Case,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Suicide,
Easy Going,
Minor Threat,
Patti Smith,
the Human League,
The Gap Band,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Buckinghams,
Royal Trux,
This Heat,
Marmalade,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Lebanon Hanover,
Das Ding,
The Victims,
Junior Murvin,
Vainqueur,
The Saints,
Qualms,
Skaos,
Television Personalities,
The Searchers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Au Pairs,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kenny Larkin,
Cluster,
Piero Umiliani,
Bizarre Inc.,
Todd Terry,
Sexual Harrassment,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.