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 Togo and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 marimba 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 Cybotron to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Jacob Miller. All the underground hits.
All Drexciya tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Aaron Thompson 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lalann record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Michelle Simonal,
Technova,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Pole,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Minnie Riperton,
Radiohead,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Dave Gahan,
Rhythm & Sound,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Young Rascals,
Index,
The Busters,
Pantaleimon,
Crooked Eye,
Crispian St. Peters,
Terry Callier,
Radiopuhelimet,
Harry Pussy,
Gastr Del Sol,
Black Flag,
Gabor Szabo,
Cluster,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Motorama,
The Searchers,
Gerry Rafferty,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Kerri Chandler,
Sex Pistols,
LL Cool J,
Niagra,
Bill Wells,
Alton Ellis,
Au Pairs,
Sparks,
Dorothy Ashby,
T.S.O.L.,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Kenny Larkin,
John Holt,
Agitation Free,
Steve Hackett,
A Certain Ratio,
Arthur Verocai,
Urselle,
Freddie Wadling,
Amazonics,
Minny Pops,
Rod Modell,
Cheater Slicks,
Minor Threat,
Eric Copeland,
Electric Prunes,
R.M.O.,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Lyres,
John Lydon,
The Litter,
David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod, David Axelrod.
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.