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 Niger and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 Captain Beefheart 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 Bauhaus to the grime kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Delta 5. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Unrelated Segments 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Yazoo,
Interpol,
Smog,
The Five Americans,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Nik Kershaw,
Roxette,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Sam Rivers,
Carl Craig,
Susan Cadogan,
The Walker Brothers,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Black Flag,
Das Ding,
Morten Harket,
Lightning Bolt,
Erykah Badu,
Loose Ends,
The Motions,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lou Christie,
Ronan,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Stooges,
Eddi Front,
Angry Samoans,
The Neon Judgement,
The Gories,
Minor Threat,
Johnny Clarke,
Theoretical Girls,
Faust,
Los Fastidios,
Clear Light,
DNA,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Fela Kuti,
Black Bananas,
Shoche,
Peter & Gordon,
OOIOO,
New Age Steppers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Fluxion,
Mad Mike,
Terry Callier,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Yaz,
Jawbox,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Buckinghams,
Delta 5,
Stockholm Monsters,
Lucky Dragons,
Anthony Braxton,
Royal Trux,
Thee Headcoats,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Dead C,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.