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 Sri Lanka and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 güiro 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 Glenn Branca to the dance kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Audionom. All the underground hits.
All Blake Baxter tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bootsy Collins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eve St. Jones,
The New Christs,
The Dave Clark Five,
Scrapy,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Evens,
Connie Case,
Suburban Knight,
Skarface,
The Monochrome Set,
Flipper,
Country Joe & The Fish,
E-Dancer,
Roy Ayers,
Donald Byrd,
ABC,
Second Layer,
Faraquet,
the Association,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Kaleidoscope,
MC5,
These Immortal Souls,
Johnny Clarke,
Bill Wells,
Warren Ellis,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Cecil Taylor,
Soulsonic Force,
T.S.O.L.,
Lebanon Hanover,
James White and The Blacks,
Essential Logic,
Mad Mike,
Albert Ayler,
Amazonics,
Technova,
Soul II Soul,
Boredoms,
Monolake,
Janne Schatter,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sam Rivers,
Flash Fearless,
Matthew Halsall,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Monks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Gang of Four,
Dave Gahan,
The Birthday Party,
The Fortunes,
Yaz,
Duran Duran,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Barbara Tucker,
In Retrospect,
Parry Music,
Iggy Pop,
Terrestrial Tones,
Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz, Heavy D & The Boyz.
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.