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 Brunei and from Mumbai.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Negative Approach to the grunge kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Bauhaus. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Barracudas record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a guitar and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jeff Mills record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Minutemen,
Adolescents,
The Monochrome Set,
FM Einheit,
The Invisible,
Quadrant,
Yazoo,
The United States of America,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
the Germs,
D'Angelo,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Tremeloes,
Trumans Water,
F. McDonald,
Freddie Wadling,
Subhumans,
Sixth Finger,
The Techniques,
Roy Ayers,
Reuben Wilson,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
X-102,
Soul Sonic Force,
Echospace,
Rapeman,
Anthony Braxton,
The Barracudas,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Monolake,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Lightning Bolt,
Leonard Cohen,
Minny Pops,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Gichy Dan,
Grauzone,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Von Mondo,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Japan,
the Normal,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Excepter,
Harmonia,
Kayak,
The Happenings,
Sexual Harrassment,
Vainqueur,
The Move,
The Dirtbombs,
X-Ray Spex,
Fugazi,
This Heat,
DJ Style,
Letta Mbulu,
Deadbeat,
Roger Hodgson,
Sonic Youth,
MDC,
The American Breed,
The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams, The Buckinghams.
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.