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 Iraq and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1969 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Spokane 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 1971 at the first Big Star practice in a loft in Memphis.
I was working on the organ 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 John Coltrane 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 The Young Rascals. All the underground hits.
All The Vogues tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rhythim Is Rhythim record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Juan Atkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Godley & Creme,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Walker Brothers,
Grey Daturas,
Negative Approach,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
John Lydon,
Drexciya,
Porter Ricks,
Mark Hollis,
Connie Case,
Freddie Wadling,
Electric Prunes,
Barrington Levy,
Lou Christie,
Jeru the Damaja,
Schoolly D,
Kayak,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Average White Band,
The Sound,
Clear Light,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
The Dave Clark Five,
Smog,
The Techniques,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Cramps,
New York Dolls,
Wings,
Sam Rivers,
Scan 7,
Funkadelic,
Bill Wells,
Joy Division,
Eden Ahbez,
The Fugs,
One Last Wish,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Judy Mowatt,
The Angels of Light,
Von Mondo,
The Moody Blues,
Althea and Donna,
Stockholm Monsters,
the Soft Cell,
DJ Sneak,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
The Residents,
Matthew Bourne,
Hot Snakes,
The Busters,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
ABC,
The Velvet Underground,
Bluetip,
Stetsasonic,
Main Source,
Lou Reed,
Suburban Knight,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Jeff Lynne,
Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario, Ralphi Rosario.
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.