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 Chad and from Johannesburg.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Skaos to the jazz 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 The Jesus and Mary Chain. All the underground hits.
All N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fuzztones,
K-Klass,
Fear,
Tubeway Army,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Motions,
Gregory Isaacs,
Nico,
Thompson Twins,
The Evens,
the Swans,
The Kinks,
Rakim,
a-ha,
Jeff Lynne,
The New Christs,
Metal Thangz,
The Smoke,
Don Cherry,
Fad Gadget,
The Alarm Clocks,
World's Most,
KRS-One,
Altered Images,
The Gap Band,
New Order,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Scion,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Bootsy Collins,
Little Man,
June Days,
Sound Behaviour,
The Dave Clark Five,
Motorama,
Danielle Patucci,
These Immortal Souls,
Robert Wyatt,
Lower 48,
La Düsseldorf,
Swell Maps,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
John Foxx,
Agent Orange,
Bobby Byrd,
The Standells,
Q and Not U,
Interpol,
Wire,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Cure,
Von Mondo,
Excepter,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Warren Ellis,
Yazoo,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The J.B.'s,
Clear Light,
Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas, Rufus Thomas.
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.