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 Uruguay and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra to the rap 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 Negative Approach. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Letta Mbulu 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 an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Chocolate Watch Band record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Copeland,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Harmonia,
Howard Jones,
Easy Going,
The Doors,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Associates,
Kayak,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Anakelly,
JFA,
Bauhaus,
Boredoms,
cv313,
Wolf Eyes,
Joe Finger,
Matthew Halsall,
Organ,
Funky Four + One,
Ornette Coleman,
Mo-Dettes,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Theoretical Girls,
Harpers Bizarre,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Godley & Creme,
U.S. Maple,
Siglo XX,
Television Personalities,
Sex Pistols,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Sparks,
Cecil Taylor,
John Cale,
In Retrospect,
Blancmange,
Technova,
Ralphi Rosario,
Big Daddy Kane,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
The Standells,
Liliput,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Mantronix,
AZ,
The Evens,
Shoche,
Sight & Sound,
Warren Ellis,
Minny Pops,
Swell Maps,
The Happenings,
Country Teasers,
Hoover,
These Immortal Souls,
Janne Schatter,
Minnie Riperton,
Marvin Gaye,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
June Days,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Nas, Nas, Nas, Nas.
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.