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 Belize and from Portland.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Stockholm 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 1984 at the first Arcadia practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Manfred Mann's Earth Band to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Visage. All the underground hits.
All Stockholm Monsters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bootsy Collins 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 a snare and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Leonard Cohen record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought an oboe.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Residents,
Glenn Branca,
Gastr Del Sol,
The Divine Comedy,
Negative Approach,
Yaz,
Amon Düül II,
Pylon,
Joensuu 1685,
Barry Ungar,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Rapeman,
Cecil Taylor,
Laurel Aitken,
Jeru the Damaja,
Urselle,
Youth Brigade,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Depeche Mode,
Rotary Connection,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Moleskins,
Rekid,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Mantronix,
Hardrive,
The Count Five,
The Sound,
Graham Central Station,
The Invisible,
Brothers Johnson,
Bronski Beat,
The Cramps,
Silicon Teens,
Q and Not U,
Talk Talk,
Nirvana,
Kool Moe Dee,
La Düsseldorf,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Alphaville,
The Electric Prunes,
Letta Mbulu,
Idris Muhammad,
The Smoke,
Bush Tetras,
Avey Tare,
Lightning Bolt,
Television,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The Stooges,
Au Pairs,
Moss Icon,
Gabor Szabo,
The Durutti Column,
Funkadelic,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Chris & Cosey,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The New Christs,
Nick Fraelich,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog, Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog.
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.