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 Mali and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1968 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 güiro 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 David Bowie to the disco 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 Cramps. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skarface 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 a spring reverb and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rotary Connection record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ohio Players,
Terry Callier,
Cheater Slicks,
Moebius,
Aswad,
Amazonics,
Kayak,
Black Pus,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sandy B,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
John Lydon,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Nico,
Anthony Braxton,
Ultravox,
Intrusion,
Sun City Girls,
Tears for Fears,
Qualms,
The Techniques,
Alice Coltrane,
The Birthday Party,
Ornette Coleman,
Roy Ayers,
Alphaville,
A Certain Ratio,
Black Bananas,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Altered Images,
Drive Like Jehu,
Aaron Thompson,
Bronski Beat,
Wally Richardson,
The Pretty Things,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Sam Rivers,
Mad Mike,
Siglo XX,
Rod Modell,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Electric Prunes,
Sixth Finger,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
the Association,
Interpol,
The Slits,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Sonic Youth,
Stockholm Monsters,
Monks,
K-Klass,
Michelle Simonal,
The Buckinghams,
Maleditus Sound,
Popol Vuh,
Cecil Taylor,
Eric B and Rakim,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II, Amon Düül II.
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.