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 Andorra and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1963 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Glasgow.
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 synthesizer 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 James Chance & The Contortions to the punk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 OOIOO. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Interpol 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Normal record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ralphi Rosario,
Ornette Coleman,
Swans,
Absolute Body Control,
Pagans,
The Remains,
X-Ray Spex,
Dorothy Ashby,
Accadde A,
Letta Mbulu,
Liliput,
Danielle Patucci,
kango's stein massive,
Brass Construction,
Popol Vuh,
Quadrant,
Roger Hodgson,
Sparks,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Tommy Roe,
The Doobie Brothers,
Colin Newman,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Maleditus Sound,
Trumans Water,
Cymande,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Animal Collective,
Dual Sessions,
Vainqueur,
Sound Behaviour,
Echospace,
Duran Duran,
the Bar-Kays,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Electric Prunes,
Scion,
Donny Hathaway,
Cameo,
Funkadelic,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
U.S. Maple,
Technova,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bluetip,
Silicon Teens,
Wire,
Royal Trux,
Heaven 17,
Skriet,
JFA,
Al Stewart,
Man Parrish,
the Sonics,
Country Teasers,
The Gladiators,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Techniques,
Nirvana,
Pylon,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.