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 Poland and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Houston 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Liliput to the disco 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 Scratch Acid. All the underground hits.
All Dark Day tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bobby Byrd record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a clarinet and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
The Motions,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Faust,
Theoretical Girls,
Infiniti,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Slackers,
The Saints,
Accadde A,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bobby Byrd,
Bobby Womack,
Soul Sonic Force,
Todd Rundgren,
Gang Starr,
Brothers Johnson,
June Days,
Franke,
The Doobie Brothers,
Groovy Waters,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Underground Resistance,
Shuggie Otis,
Radiopuhelimet,
Danielle Patucci,
Wally Richardson,
Rosa Yemen,
Agent Orange,
Bad Manners,
Bronski Beat,
A Certain Ratio,
The Misunderstood,
Roger Hodgson,
Rod Modell,
Masters at Work,
The Buckinghams,
Scrapy,
Stetsasonic,
Mo-Dettes,
The Flesh Eaters,
Drexciya,
The Gladiators,
Lightning Bolt,
Excepter,
Banda Bassotti,
Marvin Gaye,
Ronnie Foster,
Derrick Morgan,
Silicon Teens,
Susan Cadogan,
Sandy B,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
8 Eyed Spy,
Black Sheep,
Sonic Youth,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Boogie Down Productions,
Anthony Braxton,
Lalo Schifrin,
Traffic Nightmare,
DNA,
Lou Christie,
Jesper Dahlback,
cv313, cv313, cv313, cv313.
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.