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 Georgia and from Salvador.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the snare 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 Rites of Spring to the dance kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Lebanon Hanover. All the underground hits.
All Lyres tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Yazoo record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Marshall Jefferson record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Scratch Acid,
Eric B and Rakim,
Stiv Bators,
Icehouse,
Fugazi,
Black Moon,
Juan Atkins,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Brothers Johnson,
Soul II Soul,
The Misunderstood,
Shoche,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Electric Prunes,
Metal Thangz,
The Happenings,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
June of 44,
Wasted Youth,
cv313,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Brick,
The Real Kids,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Clear Light,
Moss Icon,
Faraquet,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Roxy Music,
Silicon Teens,
Grauzone,
Hasil Adkins,
Barry Ungar,
Maurizio,
Ornette Coleman,
Lalo Schifrin,
Quando Quango,
Alton Ellis,
Stetsasonic,
Faust,
The Busters,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Television,
Parry Music,
Cecil Taylor,
Godley & Creme,
Pagans,
the Normal,
Barrington Levy,
Crash Course in Science,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
The United States of America,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
the Swans,
The Standells,
Bauhaus,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth, Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth.
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.