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 Gabon and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Bowie show in Bromley.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Edmonton.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Magazine to the punk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Panda Bear. All the underground hits.
All Quantec tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Pantytec record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Make Up,
Funkadelic,
The J.B.'s,
The Index,
Lee Hazlewood,
U.S. Maple,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
the Normal,
Yusef Lateef,
Jawbox,
Letta Mbulu,
Cal Tjader,
Jandek,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Gastr Del Sol,
Chrome,
T.S.O.L.,
Colin Newman,
Sandy B,
Qualms,
Bizarre Inc.,
The Blackbyrds,
Groovy Waters,
Kool Moe Dee,
H. Thieme,
Khruangbin,
Simply Red,
Soft Cell,
The Vogues,
Pole,
Cheater Slicks,
Quando Quango,
The Kinks,
PIL,
Albert Ayler,
Todd Terry,
Sonic Youth,
The Doobie Brothers,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Fort Wilson Riot,
ABC,
Jeff Lynne,
Reagan Youth,
The Velvet Underground,
Dual Sessions,
Rod Modell,
Anakelly,
Curtis Mayfield,
Quantec,
In Retrospect,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Detroit Cobras,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Five Americans,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Franke,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Mary Jane Girls,
Index,
Brick,
Suburban Knight,
Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson, Aaron Thompson.
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.