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 Qatar and from Houston.
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 1969 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Bologna.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 the Bar-Kays to the jazz 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 Colin Newman. All the underground hits.
All Aaron Thompson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Bauhaus record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Cybotron,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Marine Girls,
Derrick Morgan,
Hasil Adkins,
Porter Ricks,
Eve St. Jones,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Niagra,
June of 44,
The United States of America,
Man Parrish,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Chris & Cosey,
Funkadelic,
Radio Birdman,
The Fall,
Barbara Tucker,
Donny Hathaway,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Essential Logic,
Max Romeo,
the Normal,
Nico,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Crash Course in Science,
Lou Reed,
Zero Boys,
Arab on Radar,
Black Bananas,
The Young Rascals,
Joyce Sims,
Zapp,
Harmonia,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
New Age Steppers,
The Happenings,
The Shadows of Knight,
The Cosmic Jokers,
E-Dancer,
Sonic Youth,
Joensuu 1685,
Leonard Cohen,
Dennis Brown,
John Cale,
Parry Music,
Sonny Sharrock,
Cecil Taylor,
These Immortal Souls,
Sixth Finger,
The Modern Lovers,
Eli Mardock,
Main Source,
The Smoke,
The Standells,
Amon Düül II,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Doors,
Sandy B,
The Blues Magoos,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.