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 Bolivia and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 clarinet 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 Selecter to the dance 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 The Happenings. All the underground hits.
All The Gories tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sonic Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Wake,
The Happenings,
T.S.O.L.,
Dead Boys,
Nation of Ulysses,
The Fugs,
Radio Birdman,
Graham Central Station,
Panda Bear,
The Moleskins,
The Sonics,
Newcleus,
Schoolly D,
The Fall,
The Trojans,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Thee Headcoats,
Gang Starr,
Wasted Youth,
X-101,
Bang On A Can,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Johnny Osbourne,
Con Funk Shun,
The Cramps,
Subhumans,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Peter & Gordon,
Minnie Riperton,
Funky Four + One,
Delta 5,
Can,
Ohio Players,
Sällskapet,
Section 25,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
June Days,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Intrusion,
The Fuzztones,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Magazine,
The Blues Magoos,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Scrapy,
The Doors,
Sonny Sharrock,
Crooked Eye,
Dawn Penn,
Anthony Braxton,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Moebius,
Sexual Harrassment,
Index,
Cybotron,
Joy Division,
Soul Sonic Force,
Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler, Albert Ayler.
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.