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 Monaco and from Manchester.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 theremin 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 Bob Dylan to the rap 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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All London Community Gospel Choir tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Fugs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Franke,
Lou Reed,
Warren Ellis,
Tropical Tobacco,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Fad Gadget,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lungfish,
Buzzcocks,
The United States of America,
Underground Resistance,
CMW,
Joy Division,
World's Most,
Barbara Tucker,
The Offenders,
Todd Terry,
Grandmaster Flash,
Fear,
Bill Wells,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Adolescents,
T.S.O.L.,
Technova,
New Order,
DNA,
Danielle Patucci,
Nas,
Stetsasonic,
Eric Copeland,
MDC,
The Beau Brummels,
AZ,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Saints,
Byron Stingily,
The Invisible,
U.S. Maple,
Kevin Saunderson,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Sonics,
June Days,
Bronski Beat,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Audionom,
Sister Nancy,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Morten Harket,
Cabaret Voltaire,
John Holt,
Public Enemy,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Todd Rundgren,
Jimmy McGriff,
Black Moon,
Arcadia,
Khruangbin,
Sound Behaviour,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs, The New Christs.
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.