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 Jordan and from Houston.
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 1966 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Flash Fearless to the grime 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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Stereo Dub 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Brass Construction record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Guru Guru,
Moss Icon,
The Invisible,
The Gories,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Fuzztones,
Clear Light,
World's Most,
Rod Modell,
The Modern Lovers,
Groovy Waters,
Chrome,
Archie Shepp,
Alison Limerick,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Technova,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Crooked Eye,
Agitation Free,
a-ha,
Japan,
Depeche Mode,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Roxette,
Ken Boothe,
Joy Division,
Reagan Youth,
Tropical Tobacco,
Qualms,
Dark Day,
Quantec,
Lalann,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Monochrome Set,
Franke,
The Doors,
Kerrie Biddell,
Eurythmics,
Freddie Wadling,
Brick,
Electric Prunes,
Morten Harket,
The Velvet Underground,
Man Parrish,
Stiv Bators,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Techniques,
Soul II Soul,
Moebius,
Joey Negro,
Surgeon,
Wolf Eyes,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Darondo,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Black Sheep,
The Associates,
Aaron Thompson,
Sugar Minott,
Radiopuhelimet,
DNA,
Joensuu 1685,
Black Bananas,
New York Dolls,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.