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 Netherlands and from Mumbai.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 rhodes 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 Crooked Eye to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Gian Franco Pienzio. All the underground hits.
All Sun City Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Slits 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warren Ellis record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sun City Girls,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Television Personalities,
Icehouse,
Agitation Free,
Index,
Gastr Del Sol,
Tommy Roe,
The Gladiators,
Ornette Coleman,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
LL Cool J,
Excepter,
Fad Gadget,
Dark Day,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Banda Bassotti,
Tom Boy,
Swans,
Judy Mowatt,
Prince Buster,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Kurtis Blow,
Cheater Slicks,
Lalo Schifrin,
Fear,
KRS-One,
Scientists,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Television,
The Invisible,
Nirvana,
The Sonics,
Spoonie Gee,
The Music Machine,
Subhumans,
Das Ding,
Zero Boys,
Pylon,
the Human League,
Cybotron,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
B.T. Express,
Absolute Body Control,
The Durutti Column,
the Normal,
The Doobie Brothers,
James White and The Blacks,
Animal Collective,
The Slackers,
Erykah Badu,
Siglo XX,
The Vogues,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Count Five,
The Raincoats,
Colin Newman,
Grandmaster Flash,
F. McDonald,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))), Scott Walker + Sunn O))).
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.