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 Honduras and from Bremen.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Peter and Kerry 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 John Cale. All the underground hits.
All Sarah Menescal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Graham Central Station record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ludus,
Goldenarms,
Popol Vuh,
Skriet,
Brass Construction,
Pussy Galore,
The Remains,
The Modern Lovers,
Organ,
Joyce Sims,
Basic Channel,
Banda Bassotti,
Crime,
Lower 48,
Wings,
Joy Division,
The Fall,
Joe Smooth,
The Pretty Things,
Half Japanese,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Das Ding,
Kool Moe Dee,
The Star Department,
Pere Ubu,
Boredoms,
CMW,
Al Stewart,
Lebanon Hanover,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Quando Quango,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Loose Ends,
Deakin,
The Angels of Light,
Mars,
Man Eating Sloth,
Suicide,
Stockholm Monsters,
Wally Richardson,
Marine Girls,
The Grass Roots,
Dave Gahan,
Zapp,
Fela Kuti,
Funkadelic,
Kayak,
MC5,
Underground Resistance,
Bill Wells,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Von Mondo,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Marmalade,
The Smoke,
Jimmy McGriff,
Urselle,
The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five, The Dave Clark Five.
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.