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 Yemen and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 synthesizer 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 MC5 to the crunk 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 the Bar-Kays. All the underground hits.
All cv313 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 an organ and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a X-101 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Flag,
Chris Corsano,
Japan,
Y Pants,
Theoretical Girls,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Gang Green,
Neil Young,
Absolute Body Control,
Pussy Galore,
Steve Hackett,
Peter & Gordon,
Groovy Waters,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
DJ Style,
Archie Shepp,
Man Eating Sloth,
Roxette,
Camberwell Now,
World's Most,
The Fugs,
Gichy Dan,
kango's stein massive,
Josef K,
Connie Case,
Throbbing Gristle,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
The Kinks,
Toni Rubio,
Country Teasers,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Das Ding,
Peter and Kerry,
Sun Ra,
Blossom Toes,
Brothers Johnson,
Jawbox,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Juan Atkins,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Roy Ayers,
Nico,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Dave Clark Five,
Interpol,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Bizarre Inc.,
John Cale,
Dual Sessions,
Barrington Levy,
Pantytec,
Roxy Music,
the Soft Cell,
Tim Buckley,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Leaves,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
E-Dancer,
The Moody Blues,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Brick,
Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone, Sly & The Family Stone.
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.