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 Kenya and from Taipei.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 The Happenings 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 Saccharine Trust. All the underground hits.
All The Black Dice tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every H. Thieme 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter & Gordon record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pere Ubu,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Josef K,
Cecil Taylor,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Matthew Bourne,
Vladislav Delay,
Lee Hazlewood,
Al Stewart,
Wally Richardson,
The Names,
The Residents,
The Cosmic Jokers,
The Techniques,
Soft Cell,
Rufus Thomas,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Peter and Kerry,
The Neon Judgement,
The Gories,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Tom Boy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Joyce Sims,
Los Fastidios,
Index,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rites of Spring,
In Retrospect,
Boogie Down Productions,
Graham Central Station,
Easy Going,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Walker Brothers,
B.T. Express,
Porter Ricks,
Monolake,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cluster,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Association,
Neu!,
Bush Tetras,
Sound Behaviour,
Cal Tjader,
Average White Band,
Danielle Patucci,
Slave,
Iggy Pop,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Ornette Coleman,
The Gladiators,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Wings,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Ken Boothe,
Tommy Roe,
DNA,
Accadde A,
The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band, The Gap Band.
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.