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 Slovakia and from Tokyo.
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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Edmonton 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Radio Birdman to the rap kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Toni Rubio. All the underground hits.
All Vladislav Delay tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Leonard Cohen 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crash Course in Science record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultra Naté,
Saccharine Trust,
Carl Craig,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Zeros,
Eric Dolphy,
Scan 7,
Metal Thangz,
Hardrive,
Negative Approach,
Underground Resistance,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Frankie Knuckles,
Au Pairs,
Section 25,
Franke,
Cymande,
the Germs,
Aloha Tigers,
Vainqueur,
The Fire Engines,
the Swans,
The Techniques,
Tim Buckley,
Gang Starr,
Y Pants,
DNA,
Man Parrish,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Lower 48,
Roxette,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
China Crisis,
Wings,
Peter & Gordon,
Idris Muhammad,
Bobby Sherman,
Loose Ends,
The Young Rascals,
Kas Product,
The Blackbyrds,
Harmonia,
Sällskapet,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Tommy Roe,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kurtis Blow,
Silicon Teens,
The Stooges,
Nik Kershaw,
Lee Hazlewood,
Girls At Our Best!,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Colin Newman,
Panda Bear,
Black Moon,
Spoonie Gee,
The Slackers,
Neu!,
Amon Düül,
The Associates,
Quando Quango,
Country Teasers,
Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt, Judy Mowatt.
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.