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 Barbados and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 theremin 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 China Crisis to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Marcia Griffiths. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kool G Rap & DJ Polo 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 mellotron and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Quadrant record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Easy Going,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Gories,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
New York Dolls,
Sixth Finger,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Shuggie Otis,
The Fire Engines,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Joyce Sims,
Minnie Riperton,
X-102,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Gabor Szabo,
Sam Rivers,
The Index,
Stiv Bators,
Marvin Gaye,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Marc Almond,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Brothers Johnson,
Country Teasers,
the Slits,
Henry Cow,
Model 500,
Gang of Four,
The Durutti Column,
Big Daddy Kane,
Mo-Dettes,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Wake,
ABBA,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Agent Orange,
Lou Christie,
The Star Department,
Nirvana,
The Zeros,
Roxette,
Alice Coltrane,
The New Christs,
Avey Tare,
Eve St. Jones,
The Gap Band,
Masters at Work,
Interpol,
Albert Ayler,
In Retrospect,
Cluster,
Junior Murvin,
Pantaleimon,
Soulsonic Force,
The Busters,
Lebanon Hanover,
Trumans Water,
Aswad,
Nick Fraelich,
Tres Demented,
The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels, The Beau Brummels.
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.