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 Guyana and from Madrid.
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 1966 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 The Raincoats to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 MC5. All the underground hits.
All The Raincoats tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Half Japanese 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Freddie Wadling record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sound Behaviour,
Groovy Waters,
D'Angelo,
Moebius,
Sun Ra,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Eden Ahbez,
LL Cool J,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Amon Düül,
Young Marble Giants,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
These Immortal Souls,
The Motions,
Neu!,
Blancmange,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Grey Daturas,
The Move,
Aaron Thompson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Echospace,
X-102,
Brick,
Vladislav Delay,
Porter Ricks,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Monks,
New Order,
Faust,
Bobby Byrd,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Loose Ends,
Laurel Aitken,
Barrington Levy,
Q and Not U,
Agitation Free,
Robert Hood,
Glenn Branca,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Victims,
Jeru the Damaja,
Minor Threat,
Dead Boys,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Real Kids,
Icehouse,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
The Vogues,
Underground Resistance,
Kevin Saunderson,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
X-Ray Spex,
Ronan,
Yellowson,
Avey Tare,
John Holt,
The Stooges,
The Moody Blues,
Michelle Simonal,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.