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 Germany and from Manila.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Winnipeg.
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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 June of 44 to the grime kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 The Walker Brothers. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Adolescents record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 harpsichord and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Terrestrial Tones record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Section 25,
Echospace,
Youth Brigade,
Boredoms,
Jawbox,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Harmonia,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Sugar Minott,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Buckinghams,
Sparks,
The Saints,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Loose Ends,
Flamin' Groovies,
Jacques Brel,
Young Marble Giants,
Nik Kershaw,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Moody Blues,
Frankie Knuckles,
Unrelated Segments,
Organ,
Cybotron,
Moebius,
Quantec,
Scion,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Soft Cell,
The Monochrome Set,
Absolute Body Control,
Roy Ayers,
48th St. Collective,
Joe Smooth,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Animal Collective,
Skarface,
Sarah Menescal,
Albert Ayler,
K-Klass,
Flipper,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Pulsallama,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Zero Boys,
Gong,
Von Mondo,
Kaleidoscope,
June of 44,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Cowsills,
Josef K,
Marine Girls,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Peter & Gordon,
Cecil Taylor,
Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry, Todd Terry.
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.