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 Chad and from Manchester.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Sao Paulo and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Sam Rivers to the rap kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Electric Prunes. All the underground hits.
All Loose Ends tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gerry Rafferty record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Zero Boys,
Unrelated Segments,
Roger Hodgson,
OOIOO,
The Last Poets,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Ornette Coleman,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Animal Collective,
Subhumans,
Neil Young,
Man Eating Sloth,
Liliput,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
the Bar-Kays,
Aswad,
Amon Düül II,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
U.S. Maple,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Spandau Ballet,
Maurizio,
Peter and Kerry,
Barbara Tucker,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Jeff Lynne,
The Vogues,
Accadde A,
Funkadelic,
Lucky Dragons,
Faust,
Mad Mike,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Alice Coltrane,
Terrestrial Tones,
Kevin Saunderson,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Associates,
Cecil Taylor,
Robert Hood,
Bluetip,
Outsiders,
Blossom Toes,
Bobby Womack,
Scratch Acid,
Michelle Simonal,
Bobby Sherman,
Vainqueur,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Sun City Girls,
cv313,
Frankie Knuckles,
Arab on Radar,
the Human League,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Ituana,
Sight & Sound,
Whodini,
Monks,
Au Pairs,
Kaleidoscope,
Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow, Henry Cow.
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.