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 Brazil and from Shanghai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 marimba sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Delta 5 to the dance 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 Rufus Thomas. All the underground hits.
All Oblivians tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Music Machine 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scan 7 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Negative Approach,
Todd Rundgren,
Quadrant,
LL Cool J,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Eric B and Rakim,
Graham Central Station,
Avey Tare,
Model 500,
Eden Ahbez,
Rhythm & Sound,
Nas,
The Gap Band,
Davy DMX,
Mark Hollis,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Radiohead,
Pagans,
Average White Band,
The Vogues,
The Trojans,
Robert Görl,
Fela Kuti,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Agent Orange,
Bobby Sherman,
a-ha,
Rekid,
Shuggie Otis,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Slackers,
Public Enemy,
Kaleidoscope,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Chrome,
X-101,
Camouflage,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
U.S. Maple,
Talk Talk,
MC5,
Ludus,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Fad Gadget,
The Red Krayola,
Flash Fearless,
The Gladiators,
Soul Sonic Force,
Siglo XX,
Symarip,
John Cale,
the Fania All-Stars,
Erykah Badu,
Ice-T,
Malaria!,
Niagra,
Procol Harum,
Kevin Saunderson,
In Retrospect,
The Blues Magoos,
the Bar-Kays,
Nils Olav,
Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron, Louis and Bebe Barron.
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.