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 Nauru and from Delhi.
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 1960 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 linndrum 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 Fad Gadget to the funk 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 Banda Bassotti. All the underground hits.
All Todd Terry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Eli Mardock record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 güiro and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Alphaville record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Marcia Griffiths,
Dead Boys,
Todd Terry,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Patti Smith,
Danielle Patucci,
Ronan,
Matthew Bourne,
Quadrant,
Mary Jane Girls,
Cheater Slicks,
Ornette Coleman,
Theoretical Girls,
Colin Newman,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Erykah Badu,
Lightning Bolt,
Eddi Front,
Suburban Knight,
Peter & Gordon,
K-Klass,
Bush Tetras,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Big Daddy Kane,
Newcleus,
Adolescents,
CMW,
Matthew Halsall,
Model 500,
The Golliwogs,
Archie Shepp,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The Stooges,
Cecil Taylor,
Siglo XX,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Dorothy Ashby,
Arcadia,
the Sonics,
The Martian,
The Gap Band,
Dennis Brown,
Sister Nancy,
The Litter,
U.S. Maple,
Roxy Music,
Wally Richardson,
H. Thieme,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Excepter,
Laurel Aitken,
The Fuzztones,
Minnie Riperton,
Terrestrial Tones,
JFA,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Marvin Gaye,
Joe Finger,
Derrick Morgan,
Pylon,
A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls, A Flock of Seagulls.
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.