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 Argentina and from Madrid.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tokyo and Spokane.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Harry Pussy to the jazz 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 Technova. All the underground hits.
All James Chance & The Contortions tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Essential Logic record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Reagan Youth,
Man Parrish,
Brass Construction,
Thompson Twins,
Johnny Osbourne,
Danielle Patucci,
Maleditus Sound,
The Pretty Things,
Drive Like Jehu,
OOIOO,
Wire,
Adolescents,
New Age Steppers,
Kerrie Biddell,
The Star Department,
Blake Baxter,
Judy Mowatt,
The Slits,
Aswad,
Von Mondo,
The Invisible,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The J.B.'s,
Lalo Schifrin,
Goldenarms,
The Index,
Slave,
Faraquet,
Idris Muhammad,
Sällskapet,
The Evens,
Make Up,
The Raincoats,
Blancmange,
Infiniti,
Donny Hathaway,
Pharoah Sanders,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Skarface,
Heaven 17,
Soul II Soul,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Kurtis Blow,
Eden Ahbez,
Cybotron,
X-102,
Sarah Menescal,
Negative Approach,
The Beau Brummels,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Aural Exciters,
The Cosmic Jokers,
D'Angelo,
Junior Murvin,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Loose Ends,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Nils Olav,
MDC,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.