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 Panama and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 Portland and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Salvador 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Guru Guru to the grime kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Durutti Column. All the underground hits.
All Eli Mardock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a theremin 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 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jeff Mills,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Rotary Connection,
Eden Ahbez,
The Neon Judgement,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Sex Pistols,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Harpers Bizarre,
Maleditus Sound,
Rosa Yemen,
Soft Cell,
Anthony Braxton,
Radiohead,
Neil Young,
Byron Stingily,
Young Marble Giants,
Inner City,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Bauhaus,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sandy B,
Kas Product,
Beasts of Bourbon,
the Bar-Kays,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Sister Nancy,
The Knickerbockers,
R.M.O.,
Panda Bear,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Gladiators,
Supertramp,
Liliput,
Urselle,
Smog,
The Blackbyrds,
One Last Wish,
Robert Görl,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Massinfluence,
DJ Sneak,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ralphi Rosario,
Ice-T,
X-102,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Graham Central Station,
Sun City Girls,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Blossom Toes,
Jandek,
Kaleidoscope,
Black Bananas,
Au Pairs,
Ituana,
Barry Ungar,
Scratch Acid,
LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J, LL Cool J.
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.