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 Iran and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Winnipeg and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Altered Images to the rock kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 CMW. All the underground hits.
All Ten City tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fall 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Soul Sonic Force record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Modern Lovers,
Kas Product,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Andrew Hill,
Sonny Sharrock,
Lightning Bolt,
Symarip,
Girls At Our Best!,
Animal Collective,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Goldenarms,
Chris Corsano,
Tim Buckley,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Motions,
The Gladiators,
The Fortunes,
the Swans,
Blancmange,
Johnny Clarke,
Aaron Thompson,
Jawbox,
Guru Guru,
The Human League,
The Music Machine,
Leonard Cohen,
the Human League,
Maleditus Sound,
Dorothy Ashby,
Alice Coltrane,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
The Real Kids,
Nick Fraelich,
Amazonics,
Chris & Cosey,
John Coltrane,
Bronski Beat,
Metal Thangz,
Barrington Levy,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Sonic Youth,
Electric Light Orchestra,
PIL,
Funky Four + One,
the Fania All-Stars,
Average White Band,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Crime,
David Axelrod,
Public Image Ltd.,
Eden Ahbez,
Rhythm & Sound,
Rekid,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Flipper,
Charles Mingus,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Scott Walker,
Circle Jerks,
Wally Richardson,
Aswad,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five.
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.