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 India and from Accra.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the 808 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 London Community Gospel Choir to the jazz 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 Judy Mowatt. All the underground hits.
All Donald Byrd tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABC record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Siouxsie and the Banshees record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Scratch Acid,
China Crisis,
Guru Guru,
Joy Division,
Deakin,
These Immortal Souls,
Rapeman,
Sight & Sound,
Michelle Simonal,
Crooked Eye,
Lebanon Hanover,
Deepchord,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Amazonics,
Leonard Cohen,
Jeff Lynne,
Desert Stars,
Section 25,
F. McDonald,
Shoche,
The Residents,
Bill Near,
Delta 5,
Morten Harket,
Minny Pops,
Flipper,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Tropical Tobacco,
Sällskapet,
Silicon Teens,
Blancmange,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Country Teasers,
Lou Reed,
Jandek,
Kevin Saunderson,
Davy DMX,
The Offenders,
a-ha,
Iggy Pop,
Pagans,
Neu!,
Idris Muhammad,
Joensuu 1685,
Rod Modell,
Black Flag,
John Cale,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Bobby Hutcherson,
David McCallum,
The Mummies,
Sarah Menescal,
Smog,
The Dave Clark Five,
Supertramp,
Barbara Tucker,
The Happenings,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Invisible,
Japan,
FM Einheit,
Mark Hollis,
Gang of Four,
Barrington Levy,
Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis, Shuggie Otis.
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.