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 Seychelles and from Copenhagen.
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 Hong Kong and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All Ornette Coleman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Joyce Sims 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bill Near record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Wally Richardson,
The Real Kids,
The Monochrome Set,
Ultimate Spinach,
Yazoo,
Public Enemy,
Eric Copeland,
Sound Behaviour,
Ossler,
10cc,
Simply Red,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Donald Byrd,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gichy Dan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Gap Band,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Derrick Morgan,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Modern Lovers,
Iggy Pop,
Deadbeat,
Glambeats Corp.,
Brothers Johnson,
Glenn Branca,
Chris & Cosey,
Deepchord,
Crash Course in Science,
Kerri Chandler,
Moebius,
Circle Jerks,
Drexciya,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Trojans,
Skarface,
X-102,
The Neon Judgement,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
The Techniques,
Black Sheep,
Altered Images,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Wolf Eyes,
Porter Ricks,
Excepter,
The Fuzztones,
Cluster,
Little Man,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Blancmange,
The Motions,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
the Slits,
The Music Machine,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Michelle Simonal,
MDC, MDC, MDC, MDC.
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.