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 Costa Rica and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Delhi.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Remains to the electroclash 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 Moby Grape. All the underground hits.
All Deepchord tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Mills 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ohio Players record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brick,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Bill Near,
Alison Limerick,
Tres Demented,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Smiths,
Gregory Isaacs,
Grandmaster Flash,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Girls At Our Best!,
Rekid,
Gastr Del Sol,
Kenny Larkin,
Franke,
Lee Hazlewood,
Q and Not U,
New Order,
Nik Kershaw,
Zero Boys,
La Düsseldorf,
Dave Gahan,
The Move,
Reagan Youth,
Jeff Lynne,
The Grass Roots,
Slick Rick,
The Star Department,
The Fall,
The Standells,
The Fuzztones,
The Golliwogs,
Albert Ayler,
Mission of Burma,
Underground Resistance,
Amazonics,
Easy Going,
FM Einheit,
Interpol,
Wire,
Danielle Patucci,
Youth Brigade,
Tears for Fears,
Depeche Mode,
H. Thieme,
The Neon Judgement,
Yaz,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Morten Harket,
R.M.O.,
Animal Collective,
Mantronix,
Bob Dylan,
The Wake,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Dual Sessions,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Grauzone,
Magma,
Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt, Robert Wyatt.
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.