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 Malaysia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the sitar 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 Hoover to the dance kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Michelle Simonal. All the underground hits.
All Procol Harum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nas 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Henry Cow record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tom Boy,
Kevin Saunderson,
Rod Modell,
Shuggie Otis,
Connie Case,
This Heat,
John Lydon,
Mary Jane Girls,
Stiv Bators,
Ossler,
Moss Icon,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Offenders,
Marshall Jefferson,
Basic Channel,
Pulsallama,
Lou Christie,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Faraquet,
The Standells,
Fad Gadget,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Bobby Sherman,
Flipper,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ken Boothe,
Reagan Youth,
Sun City Girls,
Archie Shepp,
Neu!,
Boogie Down Productions,
Wolf Eyes,
Monks,
Niagra,
Leonard Cohen,
New Order,
Al Stewart,
Pole,
Eve St. Jones,
Alphaville,
UT,
Jandek,
Hardrive,
Jerry's Kids,
Con Funk Shun,
Eric Dolphy,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Accadde A,
Funky Four + One,
Swans,
Nik Kershaw,
Black Pus,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Fortunes,
Cameo,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Ponytail,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.