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 Slovakia and from London.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Lagos.
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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Jimmy McGriff to the jazz 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 Sly & The Family Stone. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marmalade 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Fugazi record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Young Rascals,
Ronnie Foster,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Wolf Eyes,
Malaria!,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Outsiders,
The Remains,
The Smiths,
Lower 48,
The Divine Comedy,
Black Bananas,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nas,
Bootsy Collins,
The United States of America,
Michelle Simonal,
Boz Scaggs,
The Blues Magoos,
Carl Craig,
Delta 5,
Tim Buckley,
Nils Olav,
Cecil Taylor,
Nation of Ulysses,
Bobbi Humphrey,
CMW,
The Human League,
Khruangbin,
The Kinks,
The Mojo Men,
Matthew Halsall,
Tubeway Army,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Visage,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Davy DMX,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Nick Fraelich,
Bill Wells,
Model 500,
Mr. Review,
Mars,
Agent Orange,
The Knickerbockers,
Rites of Spring,
Grey Daturas,
Joensuu 1685,
Glambeats Corp.,
Soft Cell,
Jandek,
the Swans,
Groovy Waters,
Kaleidoscope,
Todd Terry,
the Sonics,
Skarface,
Joey Negro,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Shoche,
Newcleus,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.