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 Gabon 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 1962 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the spring reverb 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 Can to the grunge 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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Deadbeat tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ultramagnetic MC's record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Johnny Osbourne record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Wolf Eyes,
Scion,
Bad Manners,
Chris & Cosey,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Isaac Hayes,
T.S.O.L.,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Loose Ends,
The Fugs,
Sun City Girls,
Donny Hathaway,
The Slits,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Saccharine Trust,
Kevin Saunderson,
Slave,
Derrick May,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
F. McDonald,
Animal Collective,
Chris Corsano,
The Busters,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Talk Talk,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Five Americans,
Television Personalities,
Howard Jones,
Blake Baxter,
Rekid,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Trumans Water,
Ronnie Foster,
Eddi Front,
Newcleus,
Minny Pops,
Harmonia,
KRS-One,
Terrestrial Tones,
8 Eyed Spy,
Stockholm Monsters,
Mary Jane Girls,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Davy DMX,
Babytalk,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Khruangbin,
FM Einheit,
The Dave Clark Five,
Massinfluence,
Wasted Youth,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Oneida,
Bizarre Inc.,
Aaron Thompson,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Severed Heads,
U.S. Maple,
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.