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 Algeria and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Skaos to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Animal Collective. All the underground hits.
All Darondo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scott Walker 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Stereo Dub record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
EPMD,
Harpers Bizarre,
The Invisible,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Robert Hood,
Nirvana,
Jandek,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pierre Henry,
Vladislav Delay,
UT,
DJ Sneak,
This Heat,
AZ,
Minny Pops,
Lower 48,
John Lydon,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Donny Hathaway,
Byron Stingily,
The Associates,
Scott Walker,
Crash Course in Science,
Camberwell Now,
The Happenings,
The United States of America,
Bang On A Can,
Rapeman,
Reagan Youth,
Rotary Connection,
The Electric Prunes,
Silicon Teens,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Velvet Underground,
Marine Girls,
In Retrospect,
Cecil Taylor,
Young Marble Giants,
Echospace,
Derrick May,
Pere Ubu,
The Alarm Clocks,
Charles Mingus,
Skriet,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Moebius,
Scion,
Sonic Youth,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lightning Bolt,
Soft Cell,
The Monochrome Set,
Rakim,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Delon & Dalcan,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pulsallama,
Jacob Miller,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin, Lalo Schifrin.
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.