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 India and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage 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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Madrid.
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 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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron to the dance 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 JFA. All the underground hits.
All John Lydon tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Marcia Griffiths 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Techniques record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Roxette,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Patti Smith,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Ten City,
Graham Central Station,
Terrestrial Tones,
Skaos,
Animal Collective,
Intrusion,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Mary Jane Girls,
Jeff Lynne,
John Foxx,
Joey Negro,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Steve Hackett,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Joyce Sims,
Minny Pops,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Magma,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sight & Sound,
Josef K,
Dark Day,
The Blues Magoos,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Duran Duran,
Chris Corsano,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Jeru the Damaja,
In Retrospect,
Wolf Eyes,
Darondo,
Isaac Hayes,
Stiv Bators,
The Moody Blues,
the Normal,
Mo-Dettes,
Marcia Griffiths,
Sandy B,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Shuggie Otis,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
The Residents,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Amon Düül II,
L. Decosne,
Kevin Saunderson,
Q and Not U,
The Cowsills,
Erykah Badu,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Simply Red,
Lou Reed,
Clear Light,
the Sonics,
Japan,
Lee Hazlewood,
Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet, Radiopuhelimet.
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.