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 Benin 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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Flipper to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Tommy Roe. All the underground hits.
All Buzzcocks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eurythmics record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yazoo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ossler,
The Monochrome Set,
cv313,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Residents,
Mary Jane Girls,
Albert Ayler,
a-ha,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Fire Engines,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Unrelated Segments,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Monolake,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Roy Ayers,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Mark Hollis,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Barbara Tucker,
Cecil Taylor,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Public Image Ltd.,
Boz Scaggs,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
The Cowsills,
Audionom,
Bluetip,
Excepter,
Judy Mowatt,
Panda Bear,
Gerry Rafferty,
Minutemen,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Babytalk,
Supertramp,
the Bar-Kays,
Delon & Dalcan,
Negative Approach,
Eric Dolphy,
The Gun Club,
The Golliwogs,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
James White and The Blacks,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Average White Band,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
U.S. Maple,
John Lydon,
Clear Light,
Johnny Clarke,
Cluster,
World's Most,
Ultra Naté,
Basic Channel,
Quadrant,
Eric Copeland,
The Red Krayola,
Joy Division,
Niagra, Niagra, Niagra, Niagra.
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.