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 Denmark and from Manchester.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the theremin 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 The Walker Brothers to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Rapeman. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Swans record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lightning Bolt,
Charles Mingus,
Warren Ellis,
Agitation Free,
Gong,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Scrapy,
L. Decosne,
Roxy Music,
Index,
Big Daddy Kane,
Rakim,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Joyce Sims,
Sonic Youth,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Marvin Gaye,
Jimmy McGriff,
Rod Modell,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Rosa Yemen,
The Blackbyrds,
Nils Olav,
Eric B and Rakim,
Babytalk,
Scion,
E-Dancer,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Oblivians,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Pantaleimon,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
U.S. Maple,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Lakeside,
Kerrie Biddell,
Visage,
Moss Icon,
the Sonics,
Brand Nubian,
Camouflage,
Barclay James Harvest,
Boredoms,
Fear,
The Stooges,
Man Parrish,
the Normal,
Eve St. Jones,
Theoretical Girls,
the Slits,
The Toasters,
Harpers Bizarre,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Pere Ubu,
Clear Light,
Althea and Donna,
Bob Dylan,
Flash Fearless,
Television,
The Doors,
Sex Pistols,
Public Image Ltd.,
Letta Mbulu,
Jerry's Kids,
Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley, Tim Buckley.
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.