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 Guatemala and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Basic Channel to the disco 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 Silicon Teens. All the underground hits.
All Crime tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scrapy record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 clarinet and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Oneida record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron 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?
Panda Bear,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Byron Stingily,
Pulsallama,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Moleskins,
Average White Band,
Procol Harum,
Reagan Youth,
The Fall,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ludus,
Rotary Connection,
Black Flag,
Camouflage,
Black Pus,
Morten Harket,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Knickerbockers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Metal Thangz,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Toasters,
Can,
Hasil Adkins,
The Trojans,
Scott Walker,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Aural Exciters,
Eric Copeland,
Traffic Nightmare,
Jacob Miller,
Leonard Cohen,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kaleidoscope,
Von Mondo,
Jawbox,
Soul Sonic Force,
Vladislav Delay,
Pussy Galore,
Eric Dolphy,
Delon & Dalcan,
Howard Jones,
Albert Ayler,
Nas,
The Standells,
Cal Tjader,
Gil Scott Heron,
The Remains,
D'Angelo,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Vainqueur,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Crime,
T. Rex,
Arthur Verocai,
Sonic Youth,
DJ Sneak,
UT,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Lee Hazlewood,
Mars,
The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight, The Shadows of Knight.
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.