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 Mexico and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 organ 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 Jandek to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All Gong tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Flesh Eaters 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joyce Sims record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Glenn Branca,
Sister Nancy,
The Moody Blues,
Wolf Eyes,
Marcia Griffiths,
Public Image Ltd.,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Basic Channel,
Visage,
Sex Pistols,
Dead Boys,
Mandrill,
Sound Behaviour,
The Angels of Light,
Groovy Waters,
Saccharine Trust,
Man Eating Sloth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Pantytec,
The Monochrome Set,
Ralphi Rosario,
Pole,
Clear Light,
Infiniti,
Minor Threat,
Khruangbin,
The Slackers,
Main Source,
Arab on Radar,
Japan,
Anthony Braxton,
Bronski Beat,
Soft Cell,
Youth Brigade,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kerrie Biddell,
Fluxion,
The Seeds,
Isaac Hayes,
The Standells,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
The Alarm Clocks,
Spoonie Gee,
OOIOO,
Sly & The Family Stone,
T. Rex,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Jacob Miller,
KRS-One,
Marvin Gaye,
Flash Fearless,
Delta 5,
Unwound,
Mission of Burma,
Essential Logic,
The Black Dice,
Crispy Ambulance,
Funkadelic,
Soul Sonic Force,
10cc,
Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles, Frankie Knuckles.
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.