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 Israel and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Public Image Ltd. to the disco kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Yusef Lateef. All the underground hits.
All Bootsy Collins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sugar Minott record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a London Community Gospel Choir record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ash Ra Tempel,
Unwound,
Eve St. Jones,
Mission of Burma,
Isaac Hayes,
Girls At Our Best!,
Babytalk,
Sarah Menescal,
Rapeman,
Shuggie Otis,
Deakin,
CMW,
DJ Style,
Flash Fearless,
Spandau Ballet,
Public Image Ltd.,
Fad Gadget,
Gong,
Scratch Acid,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Evens,
Whodini,
Amon Düül II,
The Red Krayola,
Sound Behaviour,
Quadrant,
Deadbeat,
Sister Nancy,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Charles Mingus,
Moss Icon,
The Stooges,
Urselle,
Alphaville,
Roxette,
Simply Red,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Danielle Patucci,
The Slits,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Smog,
The Associates,
Ultimate Spinach,
Terrestrial Tones,
Alton Ellis,
Soul II Soul,
Big Daddy Kane,
KRS-One,
The New Christs,
Cal Tjader,
Pharoah Sanders,
Lou Reed,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Flamin' Groovies,
Amazonics,
The Count Five,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Thee Headcoats,
Nirvana,
The Fuzztones,
The Gories, The Gories, The Gories, The Gories.
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.