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 Kenya and from Houston.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
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 FM Einheit to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Morten Harket. All the underground hits.
All Sister Nancy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Neu! record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Slave record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Stereo Dub,
Marshall Jefferson,
Peter and Kerry,
Kerrie Biddell,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Glambeats Corp.,
The Gladiators,
Blake Baxter,
Sparks,
H. Thieme,
LL Cool J,
Lee Hazlewood,
The New Christs,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
The Smiths,
Archie Shepp,
Rapeman,
Kenny Larkin,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Rotary Connection,
Livin' Joy,
Pierre Henry,
Minny Pops,
Drexciya,
MDC,
Neil Young,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Skarface,
Pantytec,
Sixth Finger,
X-Ray Spex,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
The Five Americans,
Sonny Sharrock,
Sun Ra,
Monks,
Mad Mike,
Scrapy,
the Human League,
David Axelrod,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Morten Harket,
Delon & Dalcan,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Fad Gadget,
Lebanon Hanover,
Moebius,
The Cowsills,
Sun City Girls,
The Monks,
Barry Ungar,
Cluster,
The Sound,
Yellowson,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Derrick May,
Lou Reed,
ABC,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.