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 Venezuela and from Paris.
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 1969 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Sällskapet to the grime kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Cybotron. All the underground hits.
All New York Dolls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Grandmaster Flash record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Eric Dolphy,
Vainqueur,
Morten Harket,
Barbara Tucker,
The Last Poets,
Peter & Gordon,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Althea and Donna,
Smog,
Funky Four + One,
The Victims,
Kenny Larkin,
Dark Day,
Albert Ayler,
Marc Almond,
David Bowie,
Fela Kuti,
The Leaves,
Donald Byrd,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
The Cramps,
Shuggie Otis,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Janne Schatter,
Trumans Water,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Arab on Radar,
Guru Guru,
Amazonics,
Davy DMX,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
OOIOO,
PIL,
Tim Buckley,
Soft Cell,
Organ,
Livin' Joy,
June of 44,
Black Flag,
Half Japanese,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Mark Hollis,
The Slackers,
The Dead C,
Black Moon,
Spoonie Gee,
Sound Behaviour,
MDC,
Brick,
Bootsy Collins,
Tubeway Army,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Ten City,
the Normal,
B.T. Express,
Chrome,
Joe Smooth,
Los Fastidios,
Crispy Ambulance,
Kool Moe Dee,
Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants, Young Marble Giants.
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.