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 France and from Manchester.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Sao Paulo.
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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet 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 Blancmange to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Zero Boys. All the underground hits.
All Fatback Band tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Throbbing Gristle 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Subhumans,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Pulsallama,
Bobby Sherman,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Liliput,
The Alarm Clocks,
Au Pairs,
Bluetip,
Khruangbin,
The Searchers,
Boogie Down Productions,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Skatalites,
Avey Tare,
Altered Images,
Fela Kuti,
Pantytec,
The Cowsills,
Ludus,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
48th St. Collective,
Thompson Twins,
The Busters,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Urselle,
Crispy Ambulance,
Goldenarms,
Robert Hood,
Brothers Johnson,
John Coltrane,
Sight & Sound,
Bobby Byrd,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Marc Almond,
Al Stewart,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Clear Light,
Fear,
Underground Resistance,
Pagans,
Slave,
Brass Construction,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Jandek,
The Divine Comedy,
Kurtis Blow,
Eli Mardock,
The Doors,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scion,
Massinfluence,
The Victims,
Pylon,
cv313,
The Motions,
Warren Ellis,
Bobby Womack,
Duran Duran,
The Fuzztones,
the Sonics,
Anakelly,
The Moody Blues,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon, Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon.
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.