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 Belgium and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Ubu show in Cleveland.
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 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Delhi 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 theremin 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 Technova to the funk 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 Radiopuhelimet. All the underground hits.
All The Shadows of Knight tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Major Organ And The Adding Machine record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Duran Duran record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sällskapet,
Los Fastidios,
Pantaleimon,
Severed Heads,
Sarah Menescal,
Hashim,
These Immortal Souls,
Jimmy McGriff,
Brick,
Kerri Chandler,
The J.B.'s,
Ronnie Foster,
8 Eyed Spy,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
New Order,
Shoche,
China Crisis,
Terry Callier,
Dead Boys,
Nirvana,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Bobby Sherman,
The Offenders,
Average White Band,
Infiniti,
Deakin,
Neu!,
Pagans,
Rakim,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Magma,
Roxette,
Jeff Mills,
Lebanon Hanover,
The Remains,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Isaac Hayes,
Gang of Four,
Crash Course in Science,
The Invisible,
Make Up,
The Happenings,
Aloha Tigers,
The Blackbyrds,
Erykah Badu,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Aural Exciters,
Outsiders,
Rotary Connection,
Dawn Penn,
Glambeats Corp.,
Soft Machine,
Guru Guru,
Groovy Waters,
A Certain Ratio,
Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica, Lou Reed & Metallica.
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.