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 Ireland and from Salvador.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Make Up to the grunge 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 Sun Ra. All the underground hits.
All Eddi Front tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amazonics 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 mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Albert Ayler,
Dennis Brown,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Leonard Cohen,
World's Most,
Silicon Teens,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Moby Grape,
10cc,
Little Man,
Grandmaster Flash,
Talk Talk,
The Techniques,
The Barracudas,
Eden Ahbez,
The Flesh Eaters,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Adolescents,
Ten City,
Negative Approach,
Audionom,
Fat Boys,
PIL,
Suburban Knight,
Max Romeo,
Minnie Riperton,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Monolake,
Sonic Youth,
Wally Richardson,
The Red Krayola,
Hasil Adkins,
The Alarm Clocks,
The Toasters,
Drexciya,
Lungfish,
Blossom Toes,
Man Eating Sloth,
Banda Bassotti,
Tropical Tobacco,
The Grass Roots,
Whodini,
Public Enemy,
The Sonics,
The Victims,
Spoonie Gee,
Country Teasers,
the Fania All-Stars,
Eli Mardock,
The Fugs,
Prince Buster,
the Sonics,
The New Christs,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Scott Walker,
Alton Ellis,
Neu!,
Vainqueur,
Unrelated Segments,
Kaleidoscope,
The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy, The Divine Comedy.
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.