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 Mauritania and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Big Daddy Kane to the rap kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Erasure. All the underground hits.
All Jandek tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sam Rivers record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gang Green record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sixth Finger,
Flash Fearless,
Intrusion,
Johnny Osbourne,
Idris Muhammad,
The Young Rascals,
The Gun Club,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
World's Most,
Laurel Aitken,
The Toasters,
David Bowie,
Lyres,
Nico,
Sun Ra,
Pierre Henry,
Livin' Joy,
Drive Like Jehu,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Frankie Knuckles,
Mark Hollis,
Kevin Saunderson,
Q and Not U,
Altered Images,
Peter & Gordon,
Archie Shepp,
Boz Scaggs,
Liliput,
Animal Collective,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Crispy Ambulance,
New Age Steppers,
E-Dancer,
Dual Sessions,
Cluster,
Isaac Hayes,
Buzzcocks,
Cheater Slicks,
Man Parrish,
The Modern Lovers,
Masters at Work,
Funkadelic,
The Gories,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Mars,
Cal Tjader,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bauhaus,
The Gap Band,
Barry Ungar,
Lebanon Hanover,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Icehouse,
Tres Demented,
Todd Terry,
Minor Threat,
Japan,
Alphaville,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Deakin,
Urselle,
Gong, Gong, Gong, Gong.
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.