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 Ivory Coast and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 mellotron 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 Nik Kershaw to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Bill Near. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Dave Clark Five record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a EPMD record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Morten Harket,
Franke,
Nils Olav,
Warsaw,
Idris Muhammad,
Sparks,
Matthew Halsall,
cv313,
Jandek,
L. Decosne,
Duran Duran,
the Normal,
Althea and Donna,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pulsallama,
Godley & Creme,
Monks,
The Mojo Men,
Soulsonic Force,
Fugazi,
Donny Hathaway,
Scott Walker,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Lakeside,
The Busters,
Avey Tare,
The Smoke,
Half Japanese,
Minnie Riperton,
Kevin Saunderson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Livin' Joy,
The Raincoats,
K-Klass,
Guru Guru,
The Slits,
FM Einheit,
The Slackers,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Audionom,
Wings,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Eve St. Jones,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Pharoah Sanders,
Faraquet,
Pantaleimon,
Sam Rivers,
Pussy Galore,
Desert Stars,
The Moody Blues,
Joyce Sims,
The Walker Brothers,
the Association,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
The Fuzztones,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark.
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.