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 Manila.
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 1963 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Jesper Dahlbäck to the grunge 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 Quantec. All the underground hits.
All Eyeless In Gaza tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Pop Group 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Drexciya record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Saccharine Trust,
La Düsseldorf,
The Pretty Things,
The Kinks,
Nico,
Unrelated Segments,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Skarface,
Faust,
Scrapy,
Mark Hollis,
The Stooges,
Josef K,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Happenings,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Monks,
MC5,
The Seeds,
Youth Brigade,
8 Eyed Spy,
Newcleus,
Stiv Bators,
Susan Cadogan,
Excepter,
T. Rex,
Minor Threat,
Delon & Dalcan,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
ABC,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Aaron Thompson,
Lebanon Hanover,
The New Christs,
Traffic Nightmare,
Shoche,
Leonard Cohen,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Beasts of Bourbon,
The Litter,
The Red Krayola,
Dual Sessions,
Jandek,
Radiopuhelimet,
Wire,
Groovy Waters,
Kool Moe Dee,
Connie Case,
PIL,
Joensuu 1685,
Panda Bear,
Hot Snakes,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
the Fania All-Stars,
Blossom Toes,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
EPMD,
Oneida,
Frankie Knuckles,
Marmalade,
Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme, Godley & Creme.
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.