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 Romania and from Johannesburg.
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 1963 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 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 Audionom to the disco kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Aural Exciters. All the underground hits.
All One Last Wish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Rod Modell record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
T.S.O.L.,
Jeff Mills,
The Cure,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Yusef Lateef,
Sandy B,
Vainqueur,
The Fortunes,
The Motions,
Groovy Waters,
Moby Grape,
Crooked Eye,
Zero Boys,
48th St. Collective,
Neu!,
One Last Wish,
Panda Bear,
Suicide,
Model 500,
Tomorrow,
Lalann,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Gang Green,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Y Pants,
Slave,
DJ Style,
Monolake,
Chris Corsano,
Gil Scott Heron,
David McCallum,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eurythmics,
The Searchers,
Marcia Griffiths,
Main Source,
Urselle,
Banda Bassotti,
The Happenings,
Scan 7,
Sixth Finger,
Sex Pistols,
Von Mondo,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Faust,
MDC,
Lebanon Hanover,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Peter and Kerry,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Modern Lovers,
Connie Case,
Colin Newman,
Quantec,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Joy Division,
Ronnie Foster,
Mandrill,
Index,
Max Romeo,
Lakeside,
Magazine,
The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group, The Pop Group.
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.