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 India and from Calgary.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1962 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 X-101 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 Talk Talk. All the underground hits.
All Ponytail tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pole 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sexual Harrassment,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Pierre Henry,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Trojans,
Camberwell Now,
Scientists,
Hoover,
The Fugs,
Essential Logic,
JFA,
Robert Hood,
The Gladiators,
Siglo XX,
The Pretty Things,
Warsaw,
Michelle Simonal,
Quadrant,
The Gories,
Arthur Verocai,
Moss Icon,
Urselle,
Outsiders,
Wasted Youth,
Mary Jane Girls,
Danielle Patucci,
Sällskapet,
Newcleus,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Sparks,
New Order,
Archie Shepp,
Symarip,
Accadde A,
Lyres,
The Sound,
Soft Machine,
The New Christs,
Simply Red,
Mr. Review,
The Mojo Men,
Todd Terry,
Procol Harum,
LL Cool J,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Donny Hathaway,
PIL,
UT,
Public Enemy,
Monks,
Heaven 17,
cv313,
Groovy Waters,
Public Image Ltd.,
Barrington Levy,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Kayak,
Magma,
Robert Wyatt,
Peter & Gordon,
Stetsasonic,
Tropical Tobacco,
Scion, Scion, Scion, Scion.
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.