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 Afghanistan and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Normal to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Fugazi. All the underground hits.
All Gichy Dan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mandrill record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and an oboe 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 guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soulsonic Force,
Crooked Eye,
Nas,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Stereo Dub,
Los Fastidios,
Kaleidoscope,
Tubeway Army,
Wire,
Girls At Our Best!,
Shoche,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Whodini,
Saccharine Trust,
Negative Approach,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Electric Prunes,
Ponytail,
Joe Finger,
Cluster,
The Stooges,
Stetsasonic,
Kas Product,
Ken Boothe,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Fugazi,
Smog,
Letta Mbulu,
The Star Department,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ultra Naté,
Mantronix,
The Smiths,
Mr. Review,
Black Pus,
Moss Icon,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Von Mondo,
Todd Rundgren,
Bootsy Collins,
Wolf Eyes,
Sonic Youth,
Grey Daturas,
The Five Americans,
Robert Wyatt,
Duran Duran,
Talk Talk,
A Certain Ratio,
A Flock of Seagulls,
T. Rex,
Spoonie Gee,
Rufus Thomas,
Das Ding,
Tears for Fears,
Pagans,
Pere Ubu,
Eric Copeland,
Dark Day,
Shuggie Otis,
the Swans,
Alphaville,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Wake,
The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America, The United States of America.
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.