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 Luxembourg and from Bologna.
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 1964 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the 808 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 Cecil Taylor to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Jacques Brel. All the underground hits.
All Icehouse tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Donny Hathaway 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Cybotron record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
AZ,
Jeff Lynne,
Dave Gahan,
Roxette,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Misunderstood,
The Dead C,
Duran Duran,
Yaz,
John Cale,
Eric Dolphy,
Pere Ubu,
Lyres,
The Fall,
Fatback Band,
Funky Four + One,
Alton Ellis,
The Moody Blues,
Little Man,
Skaos,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Connie Case,
Shoche,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
48th St. Collective,
The Divine Comedy,
The Fire Engines,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Model 500,
Terrestrial Tones,
Niagra,
Television Personalities,
Lebanon Hanover,
Lee Hazlewood,
A Certain Ratio,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ultravox,
Urselle,
Kayak,
Minnie Riperton,
EPMD,
Juan Atkins,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Real Kids,
Judy Mowatt,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Don Cherry,
Jandek,
Terry Callier,
Flipper,
the Normal,
Audionom,
Peter & Gordon,
Yellowson,
Icehouse,
Tommy Roe,
Sound Behaviour,
Popol Vuh,
Susan Cadogan,
The Techniques,
Monolake,
Buzzcocks,
Ten City,
L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne, L. Decosne.
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.