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 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Harpers Bizarre to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Pierre Henry. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bobby Womack record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
a-ha,
Ossler,
Nation of Ulysses,
Trumans Water,
The Saints,
Bush Tetras,
Infiniti,
Lalo Schifrin,
Avey Tare,
Josef K,
Reuben Wilson,
The Five Americans,
Rekid,
Section 25,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Grauzone,
Kerri Chandler,
The Toasters,
Kenny Larkin,
Sun City Girls,
Los Fastidios,
Robert Wyatt,
The Searchers,
Rotary Connection,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Altered Images,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bob Dylan,
Boogie Down Productions,
Roxette,
Grandmaster Flash,
ABC,
The Monochrome Set,
Theoretical Girls,
The Alarm Clocks,
David Axelrod,
Moss Icon,
New Age Steppers,
Chris & Cosey,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Moody Blues,
AZ,
Warsaw,
The Stooges,
Junior Murvin,
Anthony Braxton,
Amon Düül II,
The Moleskins,
The Gladiators,
Slave,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Television Personalities,
Pantaleimon,
Kool Moe Dee,
Bang On A Can,
Aswad,
Slick Rick,
Hashim,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Skriet,
L. Decosne,
John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx, John Foxx.
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.