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 Tuvalu and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 arpeggiator 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 10cc to the crunk kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Absolute Body Control. All the underground hits.
All Talk Talk tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pagans record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Amon Düül II record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Altered Images,
Amon Düül II,
a-ha,
New Age Steppers,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Nirvana,
Joy Division,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Jeff Mills,
John Foxx,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Smoke,
Morten Harket,
Mars,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Curtis Mayfield,
Throbbing Gristle,
Little Man,
Boz Scaggs,
Sun City Girls,
Mad Mike,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Boredoms,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Y Pants,
Soul Sonic Force,
Deakin,
Marcia Griffiths,
Accadde A,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ituana,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Panda Bear,
The Gladiators,
Model 500,
Franke,
The Blackbyrds,
Tubeway Army,
Bush Tetras,
Wasted Youth,
Freddie Wadling,
Derrick May,
Pierre Henry,
B.T. Express,
Symarip,
Dawn Penn,
Can,
The Zeros,
Stereo Dub,
Hashim,
Yellowson,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Five Americans,
Joe Finger,
Erykah Badu,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Man Eating Sloth,
Colin Newman,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Boogie Down Productions,
New York Dolls,
The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, The Doobie Brothers.
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.