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 China and from Lagos.
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 1967 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Woodstock and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1987 at the first Nirvana practice in a loft in Seattle.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 The Smiths to the jazz 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 Lyres. All the underground hits.
All The Blues Magoos tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rakim 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a It's A Beautiful Day record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Junior Murvin,
PIL,
DJ Sneak,
Blake Baxter,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Sexual Harrassment,
David Axelrod,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Lightning Bolt,
DNA,
Cybotron,
Iggy Pop,
Archie Shepp,
Cecil Taylor,
The Residents,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Excepter,
Lungfish,
Soulsonic Force,
Mo-Dettes,
The Black Dice,
Gichy Dan,
David Bowie,
the Germs,
Wasted Youth,
Graham Central Station,
Judy Mowatt,
Prince Buster,
Ituana,
Tim Buckley,
Amon Düül,
Accadde A,
the Slits,
Joyce Sims,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
The Divine Comedy,
Supertramp,
OOIOO,
Robert Hood,
Public Image Ltd.,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Isaac Hayes,
Drexciya,
Soft Cell,
Rotary Connection,
Wolf Eyes,
Clear Light,
James White and The Blacks,
The New Christs,
Jawbox,
Black Moon,
The Stooges,
Los Fastidios,
Kas Product,
Warren Ellis,
Neu!,
The Invisible,
This Heat,
Radiopuhelimet,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour, Sound Behaviour.
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.