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 Albania and from Houston.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Skarface to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Sixth Finger. All the underground hits.
All Grandmaster Flash tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rotary Connection record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television Personalities,
the Normal,
Inner City,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
T.S.O.L.,
Section 25,
Drive Like Jehu,
Essential Logic,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Au Pairs,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Black Moon,
Underground Resistance,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Gories,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Flipper,
Qualms,
Judy Mowatt,
Neu!,
Soulsonic Force,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Stiv Bators,
Delta 5,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Graham Central Station,
The Saints,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Eli Mardock,
Soul Sonic Force,
Schoolly D,
The Stooges,
Al Stewart,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Todd Rundgren,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Vladislav Delay,
Skaos,
The Victims,
UT,
Animal Collective,
Alton Ellis,
The Sound,
F. McDonald,
Absolute Body Control,
Pantaleimon,
kango's stein massive,
John Foxx,
Pere Ubu,
Unwound,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Robert Görl,
Aswad,
Motorama,
Bauhaus,
Jesper Dahlback,
Mantronix,
Harmonia,
Hot Snakes,
Hoover,
Gastr Del Sol,
Warsaw,
Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48, Lower 48.
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.