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 Ukraine and from Toronto.
But I was there.
I was there in 1965.
I was there at the first Beefheart show in Lancaster.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Lalann to the crunk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 The Mighty Diamonds. All the underground hits.
All Glenn Branca tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk 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 sitar and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Be Bop Deluxe record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Television,
Jesper Dahlback,
Model 500,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Gap Band,
Section 25,
Tomorrow,
Alphaville,
Bush Tetras,
Don Cherry,
Sight & Sound,
Sun City Girls,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Quadrant,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Groovy Waters,
David Axelrod,
Bobby Hutcherson,
48th St. Collective,
Interpol,
Masters at Work,
Scion,
Absolute Body Control,
Crime,
Sällskapet,
Aloha Tigers,
Nils Olav,
Judy Mowatt,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Derrick Morgan,
Fugazi,
The Mummies,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Vladislav Delay,
Davy DMX,
Accadde A,
Sun Ra,
Prince Buster,
Anakelly,
Ossler,
The Selecter,
kango's stein massive,
The Shadows of Knight,
Carl Craig,
This Heat,
Frankie Knuckles,
A Certain Ratio,
Colin Newman,
Ultimate Spinach,
Agitation Free,
the Germs,
Crooked Eye,
The Human League,
Flash Fearless,
John Foxx,
Lucky Dragons,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Pulsallama,
K-Klass,
Moss Icon,
The Divine Comedy,
Lower 48,
Althea and Donna,
Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef, Yusef Lateef.
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.