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 Liberia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1967 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 snare sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 The Alarm Clocks to the punk kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Rod Modell. All the underground hits.
All Joensuu 1685 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Shoche record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liliput record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Terry Callier,
X-Ray Spex,
Godley & Creme,
Gang Starr,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
The Last Poets,
Jimmy McGriff,
Delon & Dalcan,
Monolake,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Funkadelic,
Marc Almond,
Pet Shop Boys,
Marshall Jefferson,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Birthday Party,
Nils Olav,
Nas,
Lucky Dragons,
8 Eyed Spy,
the Normal,
Todd Rundgren,
Nation of Ulysses,
Parry Music,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Ralphi Rosario,
Graham Central Station,
Malaria!,
Echospace,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Litter,
The Fuzztones,
Matthew Bourne,
Cymande,
Spoonie Gee,
Maleditus Sound,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Happenings,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Sonic Youth,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Mark Hollis,
Excepter,
The Divine Comedy,
Popol Vuh,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Morten Harket,
Laurel Aitken,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Slick Rick,
Masters at Work,
Alice Coltrane,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Grass Roots,
Brass Construction,
Marmalade,
CMW,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.