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 Portugal and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle 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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Philadelphia 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 spring reverb 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 Angels of Light & Akron/Family to the jazz kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Roy Ayers Ubiquity. All the underground hits.
All Amazonics tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Archie Shepp record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a güiro.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Babytalk,
Suicide,
Bronski Beat,
Amon Düül II,
Radiohead,
Derrick May,
PIL,
48th St. Collective,
Popol Vuh,
Roy Ayers,
Rufus Thomas,
Zapp,
Eric Dolphy,
Royal Trux,
F. McDonald,
Delon & Dalcan,
Yellowson,
a-ha,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Smog,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Glambeats Corp.,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Fall,
The Searchers,
Bootsy Collins,
Pulsallama,
Soul Sonic Force,
Hardrive,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Standells,
The Shadows of Knight,
Sugar Minott,
Banda Bassotti,
Sparks,
The Happenings,
Bobby Sherman,
Ohio Players,
Ralphi Rosario,
Malaria!,
Fad Gadget,
Dorothy Ashby,
The Toasters,
Intrusion,
Quadrant,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Raincoats,
The Detroit Cobras,
Gastr Del Sol,
Swell Maps,
Heaven 17,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Make Up,
Kurtis Blow,
The Beau Brummels,
The Fortunes,
Grauzone,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.