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 Zambia and from Sao Paulo.
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 1969 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Manila.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the organ 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 Von Mondo to the disco 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 Black Pus. All the underground hits.
All Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cameo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Leonard Cohen,
Procol Harum,
The Vogues,
New York Dolls,
Rhythm & Sound,
Pere Ubu,
Sound Behaviour,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Lindisfarne,
Nico,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pierre Henry,
This Heat,
Negative Approach,
The Dead C,
The Fugs,
Fugazi,
Tres Demented,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Moby Grape,
Vainqueur,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Stetsasonic,
Guru Guru,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Duran Duran,
Moss Icon,
MC5,
Icehouse,
Stereo Dub,
The Gories,
Drive Like Jehu,
Boredoms,
Deadbeat,
Andrew Hill,
Camberwell Now,
Organ,
Glenn Branca,
Sparks,
Agitation Free,
Livin' Joy,
KRS-One,
U.S. Maple,
Soft Cell,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Slave,
Desert Stars,
Saccharine Trust,
The Durutti Column,
Yellowson,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Fad Gadget,
Trumans Water,
Iggy Pop,
Sarah Menescal,
Alton Ellis,
World's Most,
The Beau Brummels,
Radiopuhelimet,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Faraquet,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.