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 Qatar and from Philadelphia.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Hoover to the techno kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Marshall Jefferson. All the underground hits.
All Pagans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Monolake record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
New Order,
Jimmy McGriff,
Animal Collective,
Mo-Dettes,
The Neon Judgement,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Crime,
Sexual Harrassment,
Audionom,
Cluster,
Royal Trux,
The Misunderstood,
Pylon,
ABBA,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Idris Muhammad,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Lou Christie,
Sonny Sharrock,
Unwound,
Ultravox,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Pantaleimon,
Das Ding,
Jeff Lynne,
Marvin Gaye,
John Foxx,
Joensuu 1685,
Little Man,
Leonard Cohen,
Metal Thangz,
Hoover,
Flamin' Groovies,
Cameo,
The Red Krayola,
The Martian,
Terry Callier,
Supertramp,
the Soft Cell,
John Holt,
Lungfish,
Ultra Naté,
X-102,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Hasil Adkins,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Black Flag,
JFA,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kas Product,
Rhythm & Sound,
Sight & Sound,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Fat Boys,
Piero Umiliani,
Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters, Groovy Waters.
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.