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 Turkmenistan and from Spokane.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Shanghai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Paris 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 guitar 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 ABBA to the dance kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Swell Maps. All the underground hits.
All JFA 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 rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jimmy McGriff record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Pantaleimon,
Deepchord,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Reagan Youth,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Siglo XX,
Metal Thangz,
The Index,
Bobbi Humphrey,
The Fall,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Divine Comedy,
Peter & Gordon,
Arcadia,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Neil Young,
Henry Cow,
Skarface,
Pierre Henry,
The Zeros,
A Certain Ratio,
Minutemen,
Anakelly,
The Techniques,
Q65,
Von Mondo,
Frankie Knuckles,
Erykah Badu,
Flash Fearless,
The Dave Clark Five,
Deadbeat,
Swell Maps,
Basic Channel,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Television Personalities,
Donald Byrd,
Goldenarms,
Gabor Szabo,
Prince Buster,
Amon Düül,
Eli Mardock,
Black Flag,
Trumans Water,
The Red Krayola,
U.S. Maple,
Mandrill,
Marmalade,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Lightning Bolt,
X-101,
Soft Machine,
Cluster,
PIL,
The Real Kids,
Agitation Free,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
E-Dancer,
Darondo,
Stereo Dub,
Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick, Alison Limerick.
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.