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 Dominica and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Paris.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 snare 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 Howard Jones to the jazz kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Smog tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every John Cale 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DJ Sneak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Moon,
Unrelated Segments,
Kurtis Blow,
Gastr Del Sol,
H. Thieme,
Tomorrow,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Procol Harum,
Joensuu 1685,
the Swans,
Ituana,
8 Eyed Spy,
Flamin' Groovies,
Sam Rivers,
Hashim,
Black Flag,
Sällskapet,
Nico,
Brand Nubian,
Mantronix,
The Associates,
Brothers Johnson,
Aural Exciters,
Jerry's Kids,
Lower 48,
Au Pairs,
Leonard Cohen,
Dave Gahan,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Thee Headcoats,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Crooked Eye,
Minny Pops,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
The Gun Club,
Al Stewart,
Donny Hathaway,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Bill Near,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Fela Kuti,
Talk Talk,
Judy Mowatt,
Technova,
Pharoah Sanders,
Ponytail,
Skaos,
Dark Day,
Kerrie Biddell,
Pylon,
Heaven 17,
Roxette,
Harpers Bizarre,
Newcleus,
JFA,
Avey Tare,
Freddie Wadling,
Brick,
Michelle Simonal,
Yaz,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra, Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra.
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.