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 Estonia and from Madrid.
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 1963 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 1977 at the first Mistral practice in a loft in Amsterdam.
I was working on the snare 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 The Litter to the disco kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Althea and Donna. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every ABBA 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lee Hazlewood record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Moody Blues,
Marine Girls,
Barrington Levy,
Con Funk Shun,
Peter and Kerry,
The Monks,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
The Selecter,
Charles Mingus,
Roxy Music,
The Black Dice,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Stereo Dub,
Zapp,
Lyres,
Jesper Dahlback,
Leonard Cohen,
Crash Course in Science,
The Seeds,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Crooked Eye,
Grey Daturas,
Cluster,
Nico,
E-Dancer,
John Foxx,
Tomorrow,
The Electric Prunes,
Godley & Creme,
Bobby Byrd,
a-ha,
Masters at Work,
The Standells,
Hardrive,
Hasil Adkins,
The Walker Brothers,
FM Einheit,
Kenny Larkin,
Eric B and Rakim,
Smog,
Stetsasonic,
Lucky Dragons,
The Music Machine,
The Gories,
Symarip,
Model 500,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Outsiders,
Joy Division,
Bang On A Can,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tim Buckley,
Josef K,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Khruangbin,
Throbbing Gristle,
The Fugs,
Tres Demented,
Bronski Beat,
Can,
Bill Wells,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product, Kas Product.
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.