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 Fiji and from Taipei.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Peter & Gordon to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All Wire tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Brick record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pantaleimon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Tremeloes,
Duran Duran,
The Names,
Skriet,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Sister Nancy,
Negative Approach,
Surgeon,
Crime,
Neu!,
the Association,
Roger Hodgson,
Average White Band,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Glenn Branca,
Tres Demented,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Audionom,
The Dirtbombs,
Kevin Saunderson,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Procol Harum,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Searchers,
Barry Ungar,
Janne Schatter,
The Pretty Things,
Deakin,
Marshall Jefferson,
Crash Course in Science,
X-Ray Spex,
Chris & Cosey,
Moebius,
Arcadia,
Bobby Womack,
Flash Fearless,
Toni Rubio,
The Neon Judgement,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Deadbeat,
Adolescents,
Joe Finger,
Flipper,
Cluster,
Rufus Thomas,
Barbara Tucker,
Moby Grape,
Ohio Players,
Girls At Our Best!,
Mad Mike,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
T.S.O.L.,
Bootsy Collins,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Michelle Simonal,
Crispian St. Peters,
Dave Gahan,
Monolake, Monolake, Monolake, Monolake.
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.