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 Kyrgyzstan and from Delhi.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 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 Unrelated Segments to the rock 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 Drexciya. All the underground hits.
All Delon & Dalcan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skriet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 a theremin and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Unwound record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bill Wells,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Nas,
The Gap Band,
Howard Jones,
The Last Poets,
Boogie Down Productions,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Henry Cow,
Underground Resistance,
The Zeros,
Fatback Band,
Nation of Ulysses,
Eric Copeland,
Sister Nancy,
Eric Dolphy,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Stockholm Monsters,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Aloha Tigers,
World's Most,
Danielle Patucci,
Delta 5,
Judy Mowatt,
Pole,
Sam Rivers,
Thompson Twins,
The Birthday Party,
MC5,
Sun City Girls,
The New Christs,
Tropical Tobacco,
Scion,
Cybotron,
June Days,
the Sonics,
The Beau Brummels,
Icehouse,
Wasted Youth,
the Swans,
Eli Mardock,
Loose Ends,
Rapeman,
Yusef Lateef,
Ten City,
The Mojo Men,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Sound Behaviour,
Althea and Donna,
Simply Red,
Urselle,
Spoonie Gee,
The Busters,
Grey Daturas,
Echospace,
Severed Heads,
Rekid,
In Retrospect,
The Sound,
Jandek,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo, Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo.
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.