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 Kosovo and from Woodstock.
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 1966 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Manila and New York.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
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 Hoover to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 The Gap Band. All the underground hits.
All Soft Cell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Main Source record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Don Cherry,
Ten City,
10cc,
Juan Atkins,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Panda Bear,
Inner City,
Skaos,
The Electric Prunes,
Rekid,
Roxette,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Accadde A,
Todd Rundgren,
Flash Fearless,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Pole,
Bronski Beat,
B.T. Express,
Brothers Johnson,
One Last Wish,
Vladislav Delay,
Second Layer,
Darondo,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Eric Dolphy,
Subhumans,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Erykah Badu,
Leonard Cohen,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Freddie Wadling,
DNA,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Trojans,
The Raincoats,
The Barracudas,
The Vogues,
Amon Düül II,
Mission of Burma,
The Offenders,
Funky Four + One,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Pussy Galore,
Circle Jerks,
Sixth Finger,
Scan 7,
Faust,
Vainqueur,
Dead Boys,
Make Up,
The Busters,
Bob Dylan,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Human League,
Desert Stars,
Joey Negro,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Marine Girls,
Monolake,
Stereo Dub,
The Velvet Underground,
Harry Pussy,
Chrome, Chrome, Chrome, Chrome.
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.