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 Greece and from Bremen.
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 1960 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 Reuben Wilson to the techno kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Magma. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Anthony Braxton record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Loose Ends record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Gap Band,
The Real Kids,
Urselle,
Absolute Body Control,
Flamin' Groovies,
The Shadows of Knight,
Susan Cadogan,
Niagra,
Hot Snakes,
Bang On A Can,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Moss Icon,
Chris Corsano,
X-101,
Quantec,
The Invisible,
Ronan,
Agitation Free,
Young Marble Giants,
Depeche Mode,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
DJ Style,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Nick Fraelich,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Cabaret Voltaire,
John Cale,
Porter Ricks,
Stiv Bators,
Delta 5,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Pere Ubu,
Aloha Tigers,
Lyres,
Donny Hathaway,
Deakin,
The Velvet Underground,
Darondo,
The Techniques,
Whodini,
Shuggie Otis,
The Standells,
Girls At Our Best!,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Moody Blues,
the Bar-Kays,
Soft Machine,
Bronski Beat,
Amon Düül II,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Basic Channel,
The Buckinghams,
Echospace,
Jeff Mills,
Technova,
Guru Guru,
Mandrill,
Monolake,
Banda Bassotti,
Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities, Television Personalities.
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.