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 Fiji and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 synthesizer 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 Flipper to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Heaven 17. All the underground hits.
All Andrew Hill tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lou Reed & Metallica record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hot Snakes,
Kas Product,
Matthew Halsall,
Brick,
Vladislav Delay,
The New Christs,
Pylon,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ponytail,
Delta 5,
Donny Hathaway,
X-102,
Bobby Byrd,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Robert Wyatt,
Khruangbin,
Siglo XX,
In Retrospect,
Ultravox,
Flipper,
The Fuzztones,
Black Bananas,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Soulsonic Force,
Gong,
Lee Hazlewood,
Nik Kershaw,
kango's stein massive,
The Gap Band,
LL Cool J,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Stetsasonic,
Deakin,
Crash Course in Science,
Rapeman,
Oneida,
Eli Mardock,
James White and The Blacks,
The Red Krayola,
Aural Exciters,
Warren Ellis,
Thee Headcoats,
H. Thieme,
Lalo Schifrin,
Lakeside,
The Doobie Brothers,
Prince Buster,
Popol Vuh,
Schoolly D,
a-ha,
Terry Callier,
Lower 48,
Sixth Finger,
Supertramp,
The Seeds,
Alphaville,
The Mummies,
Saccharine Trust,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Kurtis Blow,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
New Order,
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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.