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 Algeria and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez 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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Portland.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the oboe 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 ABBA to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Fall. All the underground hits.
All Sight & Sound tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Juan Atkins 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
World's Most,
Letta Mbulu,
CMW,
Pantytec,
The Tremeloes,
Brass Construction,
Junior Murvin,
The Fortunes,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Organ,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
The Black Dice,
A Certain Ratio,
Radiopuhelimet,
Dorothy Ashby,
Gregory Isaacs,
John Foxx,
Kas Product,
Liliput,
Electric Prunes,
New Order,
Kerrie Biddell,
Subhumans,
The Fuzztones,
Hoover,
Grandmaster Flash,
Terrestrial Tones,
Warren Ellis,
Aloha Tigers,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
EPMD,
Spoonie Gee,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Wally Richardson,
The Litter,
Tomorrow,
Gang Green,
The Angels of Light,
Buzzcocks,
Avey Tare,
Mark Hollis,
Stetsasonic,
Tubeway Army,
The Alarm Clocks,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Lindisfarne,
Davy DMX,
Lyres,
the Soft Cell,
Mary Jane Girls,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Birthday Party,
Robert Görl,
Scion,
Reuben Wilson,
Royal Trux,
Derrick Morgan,
Ralphi Rosario,
Sarah Menescal,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.