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 Afghanistan and from Mexico City.
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 1965 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Glasgow.
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 1968 at the first Can practice in a loft in Cologne.
I was working on the arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 cv313 to the disco kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Jeff Lynne. All the underground hits.
All Soul Sonic Force tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every cv313 record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Scrapy record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your harpsichord and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a harpsichord.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Aaron Thompson,
The Neon Judgement,
Sixth Finger,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Reuben Wilson,
L. Decosne,
Groovy Waters,
The Pretty Things,
Leonard Cohen,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
R.M.O.,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Niagra,
Black Bananas,
La Düsseldorf,
Gang of Four,
Chris & Cosey,
Young Marble Giants,
Fat Boys,
Tim Buckley,
The Modern Lovers,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Sun Ra,
The Sound,
The Divine Comedy,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Yaz,
Cameo,
Danielle Patucci,
DJ Sneak,
Lakeside,
Warsaw,
Wings,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Dawn Penn,
Delon & Dalcan,
the Slits,
Eric B and Rakim,
The Gories,
Qualms,
Icehouse,
The Vogues,
The Detroit Cobras,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Ituana,
Chrome,
Japan,
Gong,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
The Alarm Clocks,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Echospace,
Joe Smooth,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
the Normal,
Tubeway Army,
The Victims,
Sister Nancy,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz, Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz.
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.