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 Armenia and from Stockholm.
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 1960 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Sao Paulo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 Selda practice in a loft in Istanbul.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Fluxion to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Vainqueur. All the underground hits.
All David McCallum tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jeff Lynne record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crash Course in Science record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bauhaus,
the Germs,
Alton Ellis,
48th St. Collective,
Arcadia,
Little Man,
Minutemen,
The Sonics,
Pylon,
Tim Buckley,
Technova,
Joy Division,
New Order,
Sister Nancy,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
the Sonics,
Flamin' Groovies,
Eli Mardock,
The Pretty Things,
Roxy Music,
The Golliwogs,
CMW,
Rotary Connection,
Au Pairs,
The Slits,
Japan,
Kool Moe Dee,
Circle Jerks,
The Saints,
Aural Exciters,
Brick,
Tropical Tobacco,
Flipper,
Girls At Our Best!,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Grey Daturas,
Skriet,
Terry Callier,
Sonic Youth,
Soul II Soul,
Sällskapet,
The Doors,
The Black Dice,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Black Flag,
Fugazi,
Funky Four + One,
Sandy B,
Royal Trux,
the Normal,
Make Up,
DJ Style,
Archie Shepp,
The Birthday Party,
Junior Murvin,
Funkadelic,
Erykah Badu,
Joe Smooth,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Lakeside,
Nik Kershaw,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
David McCallum,
MC5, MC5, MC5, MC5.
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.