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 Lithuania and from Glasgow.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Salvador.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 chamberlin 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 Radio Birdman to the dance 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 The Litter. All the underground hits.
All Dave Gahan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Boogie Down Productions record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Sexual Harrassment,
X-101,
Tropical Tobacco,
John Foxx,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Big Daddy Kane,
Scion,
Lou Reed,
The Smiths,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Pylon,
Surgeon,
Dorothy Ashby,
Fela Kuti,
Eurythmics,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Popol Vuh,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Swell Maps,
Rod Modell,
The Young Rascals,
The Cure,
Ken Boothe,
Soft Machine,
The Blackbyrds,
The Standells,
Aural Exciters,
Avey Tare,
Basic Channel,
Amazonics,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Archie Shepp,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Brick,
Arcadia,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Joensuu 1685,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
PIL,
Carl Craig,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Cecil Taylor,
Barclay James Harvest,
Quando Quango,
Tomorrow,
Mad Mike,
Massinfluence,
Pulsallama,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Moebius,
Donald Byrd,
Blancmange,
Frankie Knuckles,
Bobby Sherman,
The Golliwogs,
Nick Fraelich,
In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect, In Retrospect.
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.