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 Iceland and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Bush Tetras to the jazz kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Minny Pops. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Monolake record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 linndrum and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jerry Gold Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hashim,
AZ,
Suburban Knight,
Deadbeat,
Public Enemy,
Carl Craig,
The Associates,
Bluetip,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Massinfluence,
Bobby Womack,
The Standells,
Liliput,
Fatback Band,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Cal Tjader,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Byron Stingily,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Cowsills,
Black Sheep,
Jacob Miller,
Colin Newman,
Joe Finger,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Qualms,
Interpol,
Sugar Minott,
Robert Hood,
The Vogues,
The United States of America,
Scrapy,
Gil Scott Heron,
The American Breed,
Icehouse,
Crispian St. Peters,
Con Funk Shun,
the Sonics,
Alice Coltrane,
Sun City Girls,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Royal Trux,
Deepchord,
X-Ray Spex,
The Young Rascals,
Lou Reed,
Zapp,
Harmonia,
Idris Muhammad,
John Foxx,
The Pretty Things,
H. Thieme,
The Last Poets,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
June Days,
Fear,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Human League,
Skaos, Skaos, Skaos, Skaos.
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.