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 Ivory Coast and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Deadbeat to the punk 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 Pagans. All the underground hits.
All Animal Collective tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marshall Jefferson 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Massinfluence record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
the Slits,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Guru Guru,
The Skatalites,
Harmonia,
Frankie Knuckles,
Qualms,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Barrington Levy,
Lebanon Hanover,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Sonny Sharrock,
cv313,
Grey Daturas,
Ronan,
Kaleidoscope,
EPMD,
Camberwell Now,
Cecil Taylor,
Scott Walker,
Cal Tjader,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Animal Collective,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Rakim,
Robert Wyatt,
Moss Icon,
Juan Atkins,
Duran Duran,
The Sound,
Jeff Mills,
Cameo,
The Toasters,
Hot Snakes,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Y Pants,
Kevin Saunderson,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Shuggie Otis,
Magazine,
Khruangbin,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Dennis Brown,
Ten City,
Buzzcocks,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Leaves,
Gang of Four,
The Walker Brothers,
John Foxx,
Accadde A,
Eyeless In Gaza,
The Five Americans,
Scion,
Dawn Penn,
Moebius,
The Index,
Arthur Verocai,
Blake Baxter,
The Gap Band,
The Velvet Underground,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.