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 Nicaragua and from Philadelphia.
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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 rhodes 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 E-Dancer 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 PIL. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Skatalites record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sun Ra record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
Jeff Mills,
Stockholm Monsters,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Avey Tare,
Donald Byrd,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Rosa Yemen,
Peter and Kerry,
Roger Hodgson,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Dirtbombs,
Sandy B,
Deepchord,
Wings,
Harpers Bizarre,
Yazoo,
Hot Snakes,
LL Cool J,
Tropical Tobacco,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Scan 7,
The J.B.'s,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Saints,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Slackers,
Roxy Music,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kas Product,
The Moody Blues,
KRS-One,
Crash Course in Science,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Joe Finger,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Rhythm & Sound,
Magma,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Massinfluence,
Chrome,
Depeche Mode,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Babytalk,
Ten City,
Rufus Thomas,
Terrestrial Tones,
Piero Umiliani,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Subhumans,
Underground Resistance,
These Immortal Souls,
Anakelly,
John Holt,
MC5,
The Walker Brothers,
Grauzone,
Outsiders,
cv313,
Ponytail,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.