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 Sudan and from Mexico City.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Philadelphia.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 David Bowie 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 Oneida to the punk 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 Jeff Mills. All the underground hits.
All Motorama tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Hasil Adkins record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 rhodes and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Althea and Donna record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Invisible,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sandy B,
Barbara Tucker,
Skarface,
Khruangbin,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Deadbeat,
Michelle Simonal,
The Blackbyrds,
Donny Hathaway,
Amon Düül,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Lee Hazlewood,
Sam Rivers,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Frankie Knuckles,
Eric Copeland,
The Young Rascals,
The Fire Engines,
The Leaves,
Half Japanese,
John Foxx,
Eden Ahbez,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Sex Pistols,
The Raincoats,
Kool Moe Dee,
JFA,
L. Decosne,
Lyres,
Judy Mowatt,
Bobby Sherman,
Sixth Finger,
In Retrospect,
Lightning Bolt,
The Velvet Underground,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Byron Stingily,
DJ Sneak,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Althea and Donna,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Index,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Kinks,
John Coltrane,
The Fuzztones,
John Cale,
Crash Course in Science,
Bill Near,
Severed Heads,
MDC,
Alphaville,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Marc Almond,
Smog,
Gerry Rafferty,
Joyce Sims,
Youth Brigade,
Sly & The Family Stone,
The Pop Group,
Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders, Outsiders.
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.