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 Indonesia and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 48th St. Collective to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Wasted Youth. All the underground hits.
All Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s 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 Roxy Music record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
China Crisis,
Funkadelic,
The Monochrome Set,
Spoonie Gee,
David McCallum,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Unwound,
Fluxion,
Lebanon Hanover,
Eve St. Jones,
Q and Not U,
Black Sheep,
Eric Copeland,
Donald Byrd,
Skaos,
The Human League,
Cal Tjader,
Half Japanese,
Eric Dolphy,
Audionom,
Alison Limerick,
The Golliwogs,
Thompson Twins,
Eden Ahbez,
Brothers Johnson,
June of 44,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Simply Red,
Robert Görl,
cv313,
Peter and Kerry,
Pole,
The Monks,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Goldenarms,
The Motions,
the Human League,
The Neon Judgement,
Bang On A Can,
B.T. Express,
The Evens,
Roy Ayers,
Ponytail,
Sound Behaviour,
Newcleus,
Vainqueur,
F. McDonald,
Black Flag,
U.S. Maple,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Jeff Mills,
Colin Newman,
Idris Muhammad,
Bob Dylan,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Blues Magoos,
Alton Ellis,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Inner City, Inner City, Inner City, Inner City.
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.