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 Montenegro 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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Stockholm.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the chamberlin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Das Ding to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All the Germs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Inner City 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Severed Heads record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Au Pairs,
Fat Boys,
Lyres,
The Martian,
Quadrant,
Delon & Dalcan,
Hardrive,
Yazoo,
Ice-T,
The Fuzztones,
Pierre Henry,
Average White Band,
Terry Callier,
Idris Muhammad,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Section 25,
Radiohead,
kango's stein massive,
Q and Not U,
Gong,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Black Flag,
Minny Pops,
Mary Jane Girls,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Aloha Tigers,
Unwound,
Lou Reed,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Big Daddy Kane,
Procol Harum,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Von Mondo,
Scan 7,
The Selecter,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Donald Byrd,
Colin Newman,
Cecil Taylor,
Second Layer,
Albert Ayler,
Brand Nubian,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
X-101,
Bluetip,
Boredoms,
Faraquet,
The Index,
Marvin Gaye,
Ronnie Foster,
The Dave Clark Five,
Inner City,
Clear Light,
8 Eyed Spy,
Marmalade,
Nico,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Maleditus Sound,
Gastr Del Sol,
Electric Prunes,
The Wake,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science, Crash Course in Science.
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.