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 Estonia and from Paris.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the güiro 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 Susan Cadogan to the crunk 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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Pierre Henry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fortunes 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Avey Tare 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?
Lee Hazlewood,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Deakin,
the Normal,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Boredoms,
Symarip,
Frankie Knuckles,
Trumans Water,
Lyres,
Letta Mbulu,
June Days,
Lou Christie,
Eric Dolphy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Gang Green,
Robert Görl,
The Barracudas,
the Human League,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Loose Ends,
Boogie Down Productions,
the Association,
Fad Gadget,
Peter & Gordon,
Fatback Band,
Jimmy McGriff,
Radiohead,
Liliput,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The Red Krayola,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Searchers,
The Saints,
Janne Schatter,
The Smiths,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Sarah Menescal,
Howard Jones,
Los Fastidios,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Alton Ellis,
Ossler,
Minutemen,
The Move,
E-Dancer,
Isaac Hayes,
Suburban Knight,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Moss Icon,
Joe Smooth,
Fluxion,
Barbara Tucker,
the Germs,
Urselle,
Stetsasonic,
The Zeros,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Beau Brummels,
Cymande,
Y Pants,
Crispy Ambulance,
Pulsallama,
Fear, Fear, Fear, Fear.
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.