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 Finland and from Portland.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 mellotron 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 Ultravox to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Surgeon. All the underground hits.
All Kool G Rap & DJ Polo tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Intrusion 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Skatalites record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DJ Sneak,
Radio Birdman,
Lyres,
Yaz,
the Association,
Magma,
Joe Smooth,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Joey Negro,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Sarah Menescal,
The Star Department,
Graham Central Station,
Main Source,
Von Mondo,
Neu!,
Motorama,
Stetsasonic,
Bang On A Can,
Japan,
X-Ray Spex,
The Seeds,
Unwound,
Loose Ends,
Marine Girls,
Scion,
Icehouse,
Eve St. Jones,
Blake Baxter,
Dave Gahan,
Jacob Miller,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Music Machine,
Mantronix,
Soft Machine,
Shuggie Otis,
Trumans Water,
Second Layer,
Fatback Band,
Lightning Bolt,
Gastr Del Sol,
Organ,
Tres Demented,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Rapeman,
Girls At Our Best!,
Brothers Johnson,
Spoonie Gee,
Bob Dylan,
Talk Talk,
Henry Cow,
Glambeats Corp.,
Faraquet,
Byron Stingily,
Chrome,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Cowsills,
Eric B and Rakim,
Essential Logic,
DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace, DeepChord presents Echospace.
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.