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 Gambia and from Toronto.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 oboe 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 Faust to the crunk 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 Anthony Braxton. All the underground hits.
All Black Flag tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlback 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pagans,
Zero Boys,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lou Christie,
Cybotron,
Zapp,
Infiniti,
Franke,
B.T. Express,
Alison Limerick,
The Techniques,
Pharoah Sanders,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Davy DMX,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
cv313,
Hardrive,
Aloha Tigers,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
10cc,
Dorothy Ashby,
JFA,
Shoche,
Tom Boy,
Maleditus Sound,
Funkadelic,
Audionom,
Bluetip,
The Happenings,
Man Parrish,
Section 25,
Visage,
Pole,
Crime,
The Real Kids,
Gregory Isaacs,
Banda Bassotti,
Popol Vuh,
The Cure,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Rufus Thomas,
Soul Sonic Force,
Los Fastidios,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Electric Prunes,
Jeff Mills,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Young Rascals,
The Move,
Chris & Cosey,
E-Dancer,
Blake Baxter,
June of 44,
Young Marble Giants,
Agent Orange,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Magazine,
Country Teasers,
Skriet,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
CMW, CMW, CMW, CMW.
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.