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 Bolivia and from Winnipeg.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 organ 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 Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience to the techno kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Isaac Hayes. All the underground hits.
All Scion tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Raincoats 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Index record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
The Fugs,
Robert Hood,
Harpers Bizarre,
Malaria!,
The Electric Prunes,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Marvin Gaye,
These Immortal Souls,
Von Mondo,
Deadbeat,
Soft Cell,
Amon Düül,
Ultimate Spinach,
Audionom,
Scott Walker,
Kurtis Blow,
Skaos,
Bill Wells,
Tubeway Army,
Hardrive,
The Pop Group,
Funky Four + One,
Max Romeo,
John Holt,
E-Dancer,
In Retrospect,
Sugar Minott,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Mary Jane Girls,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Warren Ellis,
Robert Wyatt,
Technova,
Don Cherry,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Skarface,
Lakeside,
The Beau Brummels,
Cymande,
Sonny Sharrock,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Zeros,
Desert Stars,
Flamin' Groovies,
Soul Sonic Force,
Symarip,
Arcadia,
The Red Krayola,
The Birthday Party,
Anthony Braxton,
Barbara Tucker,
Simply Red,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Bobby Byrd,
The Grass Roots,
Kayak,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Black Bananas,
The Sound,
The Searchers,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Lungfish,
Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown, Dennis Brown.
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.