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 Bologna.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the theremin 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 Main Source to the techno 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 The Move. All the underground hits.
All Slave tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kerri Chandler record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Delon & Dalcan,
Aloha Tigers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Magazine,
Blossom Toes,
Iggy Pop,
Lee Hazlewood,
Little Man,
Eli Mardock,
Spandau Ballet,
Drexciya,
Skriet,
The Black Dice,
Brothers Johnson,
The Remains,
Pylon,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Selecter,
Davy DMX,
Mandrill,
Godley & Creme,
Robert Hood,
The Vogues,
Byron Stingily,
Scrapy,
Pierre Henry,
Cluster,
Thompson Twins,
Prince Buster,
Robert Görl,
Lou Reed,
Chris & Cosey,
James White and The Blacks,
Goldenarms,
Soul II Soul,
Oblivians,
Funky Four + One,
Rapeman,
Gang Gang Dance,
These Immortal Souls,
Howard Jones,
The Dave Clark Five,
Ice-T,
The Electric Prunes,
Black Moon,
The Velvet Underground,
Colin Newman,
Second Layer,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Animal Collective,
Sun City Girls,
The Fuzztones,
Lalann,
Y Pants,
Lungfish,
Judy Mowatt,
Supertramp,
JFA,
Drive Like Jehu,
Gong,
The Blackbyrds,
Ossler, Ossler, Ossler, Ossler.
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.