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 Spain and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 David Bowie 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 The Selecter to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 The Motions. All the underground hits.
All John Cale tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cluster record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Gong,
Bobby Byrd,
Severed Heads,
Silicon Teens,
Sarah Menescal,
Andrew Hill,
Dennis Brown,
Easy Going,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Radiohead,
The Fuzztones,
Cluster,
The Move,
DJ Style,
The Buckinghams,
The Wake,
the Germs,
Monolake,
The Kinks,
Blossom Toes,
Moebius,
The Victims,
Eden Ahbez,
Kas Product,
Rufus Thomas,
LL Cool J,
The Pretty Things,
Byron Stingily,
Dark Day,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Guru Guru,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Residents,
The Toasters,
Arthur Verocai,
Colin Newman,
Circle Jerks,
Aloha Tigers,
DJ Sneak,
Robert Görl,
David McCallum,
Sister Nancy,
Basic Channel,
Mantronix,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
OOIOO,
Ohio Players,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
U.S. Maple,
Jeru the Damaja,
The Smoke,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Fall,
Crispian St. Peters,
Talk Talk,
the Bar-Kays,
Rapeman,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Average White Band,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.