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 Madagascar and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1969 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the organ 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 Tommy Roe to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Aloha Tigers. All the underground hits.
All Lebanon Hanover tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Depeche Mode 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Technova record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Nik Kershaw,
Urselle,
Masters at Work,
8 Eyed Spy,
Dennis Brown,
DJ Sneak,
Cluster,
Qualms,
Sällskapet,
The Gun Club,
Marine Girls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
MC5,
The Cramps,
AZ,
Erykah Badu,
Nas,
The Residents,
Steve Hackett,
Panda Bear,
Slave,
Josef K,
Magma,
Unrelated Segments,
The Zeros,
Lou Reed,
Sandy B,
Youth Brigade,
PIL,
Bobby Byrd,
Crispy Ambulance,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Cowsills,
The Gories,
Cymande,
The Fortunes,
Robert Wyatt,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Reuben Wilson,
Pet Shop Boys,
Ronnie Foster,
Robert Hood,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
New Age Steppers,
LL Cool J,
Newcleus,
James White and The Blacks,
Todd Rundgren,
Ice-T,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Los Fastidios,
Mark Hollis,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Move,
Peter & Gordon,
Judy Mowatt,
The Litter,
Lee Hazlewood,
Simply Red,
Wire,
Barrington Levy,
Neu!,
John Holt,
Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp, Archie Shepp.
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.