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 Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1960 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the clarinet 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 FM Einheit to the dance 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 R.M.O.. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neil Young & Crazy Horse record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Echospace record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Andrew Hill,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Wolf Eyes,
Erykah Badu,
Drive Like Jehu,
Skaos,
The Associates,
Pulsallama,
Unwound,
Nirvana,
Fat Boys,
Inner City,
X-101,
Barclay James Harvest,
Bang On A Can,
Guru Guru,
Ponytail,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Panda Bear,
Peter and Kerry,
Adolescents,
New Age Steppers,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Joy Division,
Colin Newman,
Animal Collective,
Ituana,
FM Einheit,
Cameo,
Rosa Yemen,
Sound Behaviour,
Theoretical Girls,
the Swans,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Leonard Cohen,
Rotary Connection,
Jawbox,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Rufus Thomas,
John Holt,
Wally Richardson,
Aaron Thompson,
Monolake,
Rod Modell,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Joensuu 1685,
Fear,
World's Most,
This Heat,
The Pretty Things,
David Axelrod,
Underground Resistance,
The Fire Engines,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Graham Central Station,
Ralphi Rosario,
Hardrive,
Minutemen,
Dark Day,
The Flesh Eaters,
Hoover, Hoover, Hoover, Hoover.
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.