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 Rwanda and from Manila.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 synthesizer sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Panda Bear to the crunk 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 Fear. All the underground hits.
All Unrelated Segments tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Moebius record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jacques Brel record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
Cecil Taylor,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Deadbeat,
Minor Threat,
Lalo Schifrin,
Livin' Joy,
Big Daddy Kane,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Moody Blues,
Essential Logic,
Masters at Work,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Crispy Ambulance,
Scratch Acid,
Mr. Review,
The Invisible,
The Buckinghams,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Monochrome Set,
8 Eyed Spy,
Technova,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Quantec,
Kenny Larkin,
The Fall,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Sandy B,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Robert Görl,
DJ Style,
10cc,
The Real Kids,
Erykah Badu,
Kerrie Biddell,
Amazonics,
Hardrive,
Rosa Yemen,
Los Fastidios,
Deakin,
Quando Quango,
Mark Hollis,
Thee Headcoats,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Public Image Ltd.,
The Golliwogs,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Black Dice,
The Last Poets,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Anthony Braxton,
Y Pants,
The Evens,
Qualms,
Slave,
The Selecter,
The Smoke,
Brass Construction,
Glambeats Corp.,
Yellowson,
Black Flag,
Q65,
Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane, Alice Coltrane.
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.