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 Peru and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1965 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Goldenarms to the funk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Cymande. All the underground hits.
All Ronan tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Skaos 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Tubeway Army record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
Can,
Fad Gadget,
Janne Schatter,
Electric Prunes,
Rufus Thomas,
John Foxx,
Eric Copeland,
X-102,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Rotary Connection,
UT,
Skarface,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Toasters,
Crispian St. Peters,
Wolf Eyes,
The Divine Comedy,
Schoolly D,
Arab on Radar,
Saccharine Trust,
Ultra Naté,
Porter Ricks,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sonny Sharrock,
Shuggie Otis,
Yaz,
Marc Almond,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Bill Near,
Eve St. Jones,
Icehouse,
Black Bananas,
The Vogues,
Mantronix,
Donald Byrd,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Tres Demented,
China Crisis,
Ponytail,
Lightning Bolt,
Fatback Band,
Jandek,
Spandau Ballet,
MC5,
Hasil Adkins,
Stetsasonic,
Donny Hathaway,
Pulsallama,
Unwound,
Tomorrow,
Mark Hollis,
Gerry Rafferty,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Names,
The Star Department,
Eden Ahbez,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Jeru the Damaja,
Wasted Youth,
the Swans,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud, Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud.
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.