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 Cuba and from Columbus.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Halifax 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Sun Ra to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Scott Walker. All the underground hits.
All KRS-One tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Smog record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Girls At Our Best! record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bush Tetras,
kango's stein massive,
Jacques Brel,
Scratch Acid,
Main Source,
Rod Modell,
Idris Muhammad,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Traffic Nightmare,
Infiniti,
The Blackbyrds,
La Düsseldorf,
Ronan,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Agitation Free,
Quantec,
The Smoke,
Clear Light,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Pop Group,
The Flesh Eaters,
the Soft Cell,
The Skatalites,
Hot Snakes,
Ten City,
Kaleidoscope,
EPMD,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Alton Ellis,
Cal Tjader,
Letta Mbulu,
Nico,
Grauzone,
Skriet,
Sällskapet,
Circle Jerks,
The Seeds,
Joe Smooth,
Sugar Minott,
Unrelated Segments,
H. Thieme,
the Association,
Colin Newman,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Sound,
Patti Smith,
Andrew Hill,
Wings,
Accadde A,
Subhumans,
Lyres,
Connie Case,
Mary Jane Girls,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Soulsonic Force,
The Golliwogs,
Camberwell Now,
Los Fastidios,
Sparks,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam, Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam.
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.