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 Kuwait and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Woodstock.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Shanghai 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 clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Jandek to the funk 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 Tim Buckley. All the underground hits.
All Zapp tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Boz Scaggs record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Public Image Ltd. record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Aaron Thompson,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Techniques,
Funky Four + One,
Carl Craig,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Mission of Burma,
Jacques Brel,
Pere Ubu,
Fad Gadget,
Eric Dolphy,
The Velvet Underground,
Todd Terry,
Model 500,
Bob Dylan,
The Evens,
Bizarre Inc.,
Mad Mike,
Marshall Jefferson,
Connie Case,
a-ha,
Jandek,
Altered Images,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Moss Icon,
Vladislav Delay,
Essential Logic,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Tubeway Army,
The Blues Magoos,
KRS-One,
Lakeside,
The Blackbyrds,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Matthew Halsall,
Metal Thangz,
Warren Ellis,
Qualms,
Monolake,
Neil Young,
The Wake,
Big Daddy Kane,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
X-Ray Spex,
Eddi Front,
Khruangbin,
Stereo Dub,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Gong,
Man Parrish,
Hot Snakes,
Sunsets and Hearts,
The Divine Comedy,
Visage,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Gichy Dan,
Monks,
Deepchord,
Loose Ends,
Piero Umiliani,
David Axelrod,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.