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 Philadelphia.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the harpsichord 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 Electric Prunes to the rap kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Sonny Sharrock tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every David McCallum 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Janne Schatter record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Isaac Hayes,
Q and Not U,
This Heat,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Dennis Brown,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Neil Young,
Model 500,
June of 44,
The Sound,
Soul Sonic Force,
Reagan Youth,
Television,
Pierre Henry,
Surgeon,
The Dead C,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sam Rivers,
Albert Ayler,
Joe Finger,
Shuggie Otis,
The Index,
The Cure,
Quantec,
The Monks,
Dawn Penn,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Public Image Ltd.,
Funky Four + One,
Mo-Dettes,
The Pretty Things,
Barry Ungar,
Wings,
Drive Like Jehu,
Roxy Music,
Lightning Bolt,
The Angels of Light,
The Toasters,
The Smiths,
Underground Resistance,
Heaven 17,
One Last Wish,
Nils Olav,
David Axelrod,
Eddi Front,
Eric Dolphy,
Laurel Aitken,
The American Breed,
Matthew Bourne,
Eden Ahbez,
Faust,
The Mojo Men,
Tommy Roe,
Avey Tare,
Little Man,
Magazine,
Idris Muhammad,
Hot Snakes,
K-Klass,
Arthur Verocai,
The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s, The J.B.'s.
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.