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 Laos and from Lille.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 World's Most to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Blancmange. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Accadde A,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Neon Judgement,
Gabor Szabo,
Au Pairs,
Aloha Tigers,
James White and The Blacks,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Slick Rick,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Ultimate Spinach,
Y Pants,
Peter & Gordon,
China Crisis,
10cc,
The Vogues,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Barbara Tucker,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Smiths,
Kas Product,
Altered Images,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Brick,
Scott Walker,
Simply Red,
Outsiders,
The Knickerbockers,
Guru Guru,
Scientists,
Niagra,
Hashim,
Delta 5,
Mission of Burma,
Jerry's Kids,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Ice-T,
Tommy Roe,
Prince Buster,
Quantec,
Ohio Players,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Sun City Girls,
The Last Poets,
Bang On A Can,
Moebius,
Whodini,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
The Selecter,
Eric Dolphy,
Agent Orange,
Patti Smith,
Darondo,
Goldenarms,
Harpers Bizarre,
Graham Central Station,
Mandrill,
Wings,
The Walker Brothers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
D'Angelo,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.