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 Germany and from Philadelphia.
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 1961 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Avey Tare to the disco kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Crash Course in Science. All the underground hits.
All Sister Nancy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Remains 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Harpers Bizarre record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Dawn Penn,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
R.M.O.,
Lee Hazlewood,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Nas,
Minutemen,
Trumans Water,
Kerrie Biddell,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Audionom,
JFA,
Joe Finger,
Toni Rubio,
Susan Cadogan,
Crispy Ambulance,
Davy DMX,
Sun City Girls,
The Black Dice,
Maleditus Sound,
Absolute Body Control,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lebanon Hanover,
Gong,
Hashim,
Erasure,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Amon Düül II,
Albert Ayler,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
The J.B.'s,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
The Grass Roots,
Unwound,
Sonic Youth,
Soulsonic Force,
Eric Dolphy,
Nik Kershaw,
Warren Ellis,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Model 500,
Cecil Taylor,
Spoonie Gee,
Zero Boys,
Make Up,
Peter & Gordon,
Monolake,
Soft Cell,
Kayak,
Ituana,
Delta 5,
Infiniti,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
UT,
Cheater Slicks,
Buzzcocks,
The Wake,
Glambeats Corp.,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Marvin Gaye,
Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl, Robert Görl.
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.