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 Germany and from Madrid.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manchester and Delhi.
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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the güiro 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 EPMD to the electroclash kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All The Smoke tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Warren Ellis record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a In Retrospect record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter & Gordon,
Idris Muhammad,
Jeff Mills,
The Remains,
Silicon Teens,
The Velvet Underground,
Essential Logic,
Colin Newman,
Tres Demented,
Davy DMX,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Fatback Band,
Cluster,
Moebius,
kango's stein massive,
David Axelrod,
Audionom,
Von Mondo,
Rekid,
The Fugs,
Quantec,
Cymande,
Marc Almond,
Quadrant,
Blancmange,
The Busters,
Boogie Down Productions,
Glenn Branca,
Sun City Girls,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Nico,
The Move,
Youth Brigade,
Yaz,
Guru Guru,
Faraquet,
Jesper Dahlback,
Banda Bassotti,
Man Eating Sloth,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Mission of Burma,
Lucky Dragons,
Qualms,
Scratch Acid,
Carl Craig,
Howard Jones,
Roxy Music,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Pantytec,
Heaven 17,
Mark Hollis,
Bobby Byrd,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Ken Boothe,
The Music Machine,
A Flock of Seagulls,
UT,
Sällskapet,
Altered Images,
Crash Course in Science,
Pierre Henry,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Offenders,
The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men, The Mojo Men.
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.