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 Lebanon and from Sao Paulo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 oboe sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 ABC to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Kayak. All the underground hits.
All Lalann tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Cabaret Voltaire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Albert Ayler,
Yusef Lateef,
Schoolly D,
Big Daddy Kane,
Amon Düül,
These Immortal Souls,
Mad Mike,
In Retrospect,
10cc,
Donny Hathaway,
Marcia Griffiths,
Jacob Miller,
Angry Samoans,
Nik Kershaw,
Thee Headcoats,
Barrington Levy,
Camberwell Now,
Surgeon,
Lower 48,
Jeff Lynne,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Minor Threat,
Flash Fearless,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Clear Light,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Fugs,
Nick Fraelich,
Nation of Ulysses,
Crime,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Patti Smith,
The Beau Brummels,
Sandy B,
Rufus Thomas,
Ice-T,
Lindisfarne,
Sister Nancy,
Tomorrow,
Roger Hodgson,
Blake Baxter,
Radiohead,
China Crisis,
Grandmaster Flash,
Grauzone,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
The Saints,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Quadrant,
Arthur Verocai,
Easy Going,
Marshall Jefferson,
Severed Heads,
Banda Bassotti,
Lee Hazlewood,
the Fania All-Stars,
Quando Quango,
David Bowie,
Sugar Minott,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan, Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan.
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.