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 Sweden and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the güiro 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 Bluetip to the punk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Television. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bill Near 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Yellowson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fad Gadget,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Happenings,
Robert Wyatt,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Suicide,
The Detroit Cobras,
Kas Product,
Franke,
Oblivians,
Jerry's Kids,
Jeff Lynne,
Vainqueur,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Inner City,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Howard Jones,
Siglo XX,
Q65,
Can,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Radiohead,
Buzzcocks,
Danielle Patucci,
AZ,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Dawn Penn,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Organ,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Q and Not U,
London Community Gospel Choir,
The Flesh Eaters,
Arab on Radar,
Harmonia,
Surgeon,
Bobby Womack,
A Certain Ratio,
Pere Ubu,
Kerrie Biddell,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Peter & Gordon,
The Dead C,
Cameo,
Khruangbin,
Stereo Dub,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sixth Finger,
Silicon Teens,
The Smoke,
The Seeds,
The Modern Lovers,
Royal Trux,
Mandrill,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Blossom Toes,
Ken Boothe,
JFA,
EPMD, EPMD, EPMD, EPMD.
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.