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 Zimbabwe and from Edmonton.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Bobby Byrd to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Peter and Kerry. All the underground hits.
All The Real Kids tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lizzy Mercier Descloux 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grey Daturas record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Unwound,
Ronnie Foster,
Gang Gang Dance,
CMW,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Wally Richardson,
Michelle Simonal,
Los Fastidios,
New Order,
La Düsseldorf,
Stereo Dub,
Minnie Riperton,
Sight & Sound,
X-102,
The Smoke,
The Cowsills,
Bobbi Humphrey,
the Slits,
Matthew Halsall,
The Raincoats,
In Retrospect,
Nas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Ice-T,
Pantaleimon,
The Techniques,
Idris Muhammad,
Main Source,
Kas Product,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Delta 5,
Prince Buster,
DJ Style,
The Happenings,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Swans,
The Leaves,
Hasil Adkins,
Curtis Mayfield,
Massinfluence,
ABBA,
David Axelrod,
The Golliwogs,
kango's stein massive,
Jeff Mills,
The Tremeloes,
The Cure,
Rites of Spring,
The Black Dice,
8 Eyed Spy,
Youth Brigade,
Blake Baxter,
Flamin' Groovies,
Technova,
Stetsasonic,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Slackers,
Avey Tare,
The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club, The Gun Club.
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.