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 Colombia and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Second Layer show in South 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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lyon and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 sitar 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 Dark Day to the electroclash 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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eddi Front 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fear record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Panda Bear,
Franke,
Juan Atkins,
Desert Stars,
X-Ray Spex,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Siglo XX,
Masters at Work,
The Beau Brummels,
Soulsonic Force,
The Victims,
The Cramps,
Andrew Hill,
Quantec,
JFA,
The Gap Band,
Pylon,
Sun City Girls,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bad Manners,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Dave Clark Five,
X-102,
The Index,
LL Cool J,
Peter & Gordon,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Audionom,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Standells,
James White and The Blacks,
Bootsy Collins,
Rhythm & Sound,
Grauzone,
Fugazi,
MC5,
The New Christs,
Crash Course in Science,
Young Marble Giants,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Neil Young,
Eddi Front,
Excepter,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Blackbyrds,
Graham Central Station,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Porter Ricks,
Eric Dolphy,
Stiv Bators,
Duran Duran,
The Kinks,
Nation of Ulysses,
Minutemen,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Ultravox,
Cluster,
The Motions,
Boz Scaggs,
Los Fastidios,
Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel, Ash Ra Tempel.
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.