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 Latvia and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron show in Detroit.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 1971 at the first Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Electric Prunes to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Skarface. All the underground hits.
All The Slackers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Shadows of Knight record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a De La Soul & Jungle Brothers record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lower 48,
PIL,
Eric Copeland,
Brick,
Radio Birdman,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Matthew Bourne,
Unrelated Segments,
Gastr Del Sol,
Lou Christie,
Blake Baxter,
LL Cool J,
Siglo XX,
Icehouse,
Camberwell Now,
The Invisible,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
R.M.O.,
Peter and Kerry,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Unwound,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Easy Going,
The Monochrome Set,
E-Dancer,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Crispian St. Peters,
The Trojans,
Todd Rundgren,
Susan Cadogan,
Judy Mowatt,
Alphaville,
Gang Starr,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Warsaw,
Soul II Soul,
The Move,
EPMD,
The Knickerbockers,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Bluetip,
Fugazi,
Joyce Sims,
Clear Light,
Soft Machine,
the Association,
Funky Four + One,
Audionom,
Mad Mike,
Cheater Slicks,
Intrusion,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Fire Engines,
Graham Central Station,
the Swans,
Erasure,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines, Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines.
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.