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 Denmark and from Bremen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Houston.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Patti Smith to the punk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Sisters of Mercy. All the underground hits.
All World's Most tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lower 48 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Judy Mowatt record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Derrick May,
Sun City Girls,
Neil Young,
Babytalk,
The Monochrome Set,
Magma,
B.T. Express,
The Walker Brothers,
Gang Gang Dance,
the Normal,
Al Stewart,
Sam Rivers,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Barrington Levy,
Sandy B,
Monolake,
The Birthday Party,
Joe Finger,
Amon Düül,
Kerrie Biddell,
Mandrill,
Nirvana,
Ice-T,
JFA,
Aloha Tigers,
Audionom,
Neu!,
Skaos,
Tim Buckley,
Lindisfarne,
Boogie Down Productions,
This Heat,
Gang Green,
The Residents,
Maleditus Sound,
Joy Division,
Electric Prunes,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Swans,
UT,
Tom Boy,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Ludus,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lightning Bolt,
Reagan Youth,
Mad Mike,
The Motions,
Sound Behaviour,
Morten Harket,
Kaleidoscope,
Niagra,
The Tremeloes,
Archie Shepp,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Josef K,
Little Man,
The Alarm Clocks,
Blake Baxter,
Ponytail,
Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty, Gerry Rafferty.
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.