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 Suriname and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the rhodes 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 DeepChord presents Echospace to the electroclash 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 Pantaleimon. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hasil Adkins 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Quantec,
Laurel Aitken,
Excepter,
Lee Hazlewood,
Soul II Soul,
Nils Olav,
Barclay James Harvest,
Das Ding,
Eli Mardock,
the Soft Cell,
DJ Sneak,
Tubeway Army,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
the Swans,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Minutemen,
Loose Ends,
Crooked Eye,
Jacob Miller,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Tom Boy,
The Stooges,
Donald Byrd,
The Sonics,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Dennis Brown,
Eddi Front,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
PIL,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
T.S.O.L.,
Icehouse,
The Real Kids,
Roxy Music,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Birthday Party,
The Fortunes,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Rites of Spring,
the Fania All-Stars,
OOIOO,
Franke,
Amon Düül,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alice Coltrane,
Avey Tare,
Hasil Adkins,
Unrelated Segments,
The Remains,
The Techniques,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Supertramp,
Bob Dylan,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Faust,
Theoretical Girls,
Mad Mike,
John Foxx,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.