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 Lithuania and from Stockholm.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Ludus to the techno 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 A Certain Ratio. All the underground hits.
All Jimmy McGriff tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dead C record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a A Certain Ratio record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Cosmic Jokers,
OOIOO,
The Velvet Underground,
Tomorrow,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Flipper,
Los Fastidios,
Surgeon,
Soft Machine,
Jeff Mills,
Todd Terry,
The Music Machine,
Roy Ayers,
The Star Department,
Joe Finger,
Bootsy Collins,
UT,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Durutti Column,
Yazoo,
Whodini,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Black Bananas,
Masters at Work,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Vladislav Delay,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Buckinghams,
Tom Boy,
Marc Almond,
Kas Product,
Wolf Eyes,
Pagans,
Heaven 17,
Big Daddy Kane,
Audionom,
The Monks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
D'Angelo,
Thee Headcoats,
Robert Wyatt,
K-Klass,
X-Ray Spex,
Gang Starr,
The Happenings,
Magma,
Warsaw,
The Cure,
Al Stewart,
Severed Heads,
Eden Ahbez,
T.S.O.L.,
PIL,
Rod Modell,
Jeru the Damaja,
James White and The Blacks,
Hoover,
Theoretical Girls,
The Human League,
Zero Boys,
Unwound,
Gang Gang Dance,
Ludus,
Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs, Au Pairs.
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.