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 South Africa and from Accra.
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 1963 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 chamberlin 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 Boredoms to the grunge kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Half Japanese. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge 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 an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Wasted Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Simply Red,
Massinfluence,
Basic Channel,
Jeff Mills,
Tim Buckley,
Little Man,
Swell Maps,
Delon & Dalcan,
Fatback Band,
The Golliwogs,
Dorothy Ashby,
Prince Buster,
the Germs,
Todd Terry,
Be Bop Deluxe,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Curtis Mayfield,
The United States of America,
Pulsallama,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Johnny Clarke,
Moebius,
Lyres,
Jeff Lynne,
Eddi Front,
Ronan,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Chris Corsano,
Nirvana,
Marshall Jefferson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Sarah Menescal,
Althea and Donna,
Fat Boys,
The Alarm Clocks,
the Human League,
Silicon Teens,
Grauzone,
Bluetip,
Donny Hathaway,
Guru Guru,
Roxy Music,
Main Source,
New Order,
Sixth Finger,
Gastr Del Sol,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Robert Görl,
Jacques Brel,
Jawbox,
The Cowsills,
Brass Construction,
La Düsseldorf,
Sam Rivers,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Sandy B,
John Holt,
The Pop Group,
Malaria!,
Flash Fearless,
James White and The Blacks,
Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez, Eden Ahbez.
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.