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 Gambia and from Madrid.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 arpeggiator 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 Rhythm & Sound to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Nick Fraelich. All the underground hits.
All The Happenings tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every JFA 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 rhodes and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lucky Dragons record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Half Japanese,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Gang of Four,
This Heat,
Mad Mike,
The Golliwogs,
Rufus Thomas,
Terry Callier,
Ronan,
Howard Jones,
Maleditus Sound,
Cameo,
The Angels of Light,
Lou Reed,
Fugazi,
Angry Samoans,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
A Certain Ratio,
Severed Heads,
T. Rex,
Make Up,
Reagan Youth,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Selecter,
Wire,
Supertramp,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Rotary Connection,
Matthew Bourne,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Liliput,
L. Decosne,
The Count Five,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Motions,
The Gap Band,
JFA,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Martian,
Arab on Radar,
The Slackers,
Black Moon,
John Cale,
Matthew Halsall,
Procol Harum,
Glambeats Corp.,
Ohio Players,
Amazonics,
Gabor Szabo,
Parry Music,
Darondo,
Harry Pussy,
Visage,
T.S.O.L.,
Lungfish,
The Tremeloes,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Aloha Tigers,
Chris & Cosey,
It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day, It's A Beautiful Day.
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.