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 France and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Manchester.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Tim Buckley 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All Swans tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monks record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Aaron Thompson,
Marmalade,
Make Up,
Sexual Harrassment,
Rapeman,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Jeff Mills,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
the Sonics,
Minny Pops,
The Dave Clark Five,
Urselle,
Newcleus,
Royal Trux,
Eric Dolphy,
Babytalk,
La Düsseldorf,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Severed Heads,
Ituana,
Wally Richardson,
Fad Gadget,
Suburban Knight,
Banda Bassotti,
Kenny Larkin,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Black Pus,
Unrelated Segments,
The Evens,
The Litter,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Fugazi,
Michelle Simonal,
The Red Krayola,
Reuben Wilson,
Avey Tare,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Black Sheep,
Mary Jane Girls,
Gichy Dan,
U.S. Maple,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Marvin Gaye,
Depeche Mode,
Groovy Waters,
Eddi Front,
LL Cool J,
The Wake,
B.T. Express,
Sun City Girls,
Faraquet,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
These Immortal Souls,
Ohio Players,
Godley & Creme,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Mad Mike,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine, Major Organ And The Adding Machine.
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.