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 Mexico and from Houston.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 harpsichord 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 Aaron Thompson to the jazz 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 World's Most. All the underground hits.
All Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Infiniti record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 sitar and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eden Ahbez record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vainqueur,
Lalann,
Chris & Cosey,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
David McCallum,
Minutemen,
Ten City,
Ice-T,
Stockholm Monsters,
Aaron Thompson,
Arab on Radar,
Unrelated Segments,
The Durutti Column,
Basic Channel,
Matthew Halsall,
Lou Reed,
Von Mondo,
Minor Threat,
The Star Department,
Saccharine Trust,
Grandmaster Flash,
Eurythmics,
Technova,
The Misunderstood,
A Certain Ratio,
Gang Green,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Harpers Bizarre,
Franke,
Crispy Ambulance,
Anthony Braxton,
The Seeds,
the Bar-Kays,
Ronnie Foster,
Marc Almond,
Kayak,
Faust,
New Order,
Japan,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Frankie Knuckles,
the Swans,
The Mummies,
Ralphi Rosario,
Bobby Womack,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
James White and The Blacks,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Associates,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Q and Not U,
the Normal,
Groovy Waters,
Delon & Dalcan,
Glambeats Corp.,
Young Marble Giants,
The Techniques,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Neon Judgement,
Dorothy Ashby,
Colin Newman,
Tropical Tobacco,
Aural Exciters,
Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry, Peter and Kerry.
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.