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 Nepal and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1984.
I was there at the first Arcadia show in London.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Delhi and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Ohio Players to the funk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Sarah Menescal. All the underground hits.
All Reagan Youth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lightning Bolt record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 a clarinet and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Crispy Ambulance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Clear Light,
Organ,
Todd Terry,
Rosa Yemen,
The Gun Club,
The Toasters,
Toni Rubio,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Donald Byrd,
Funkadelic,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Freddie Wadling,
Lee Hazlewood,
Circle Jerks,
The Beau Brummels,
Barbara Tucker,
Ohio Players,
a-ha,
Jandek,
Fela Kuti,
Gregory Isaacs,
T.S.O.L.,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Deepchord,
The Cowsills,
Ronnie Foster,
Agitation Free,
the Soft Cell,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Vladislav Delay,
Malaria!,
Outsiders,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Wake,
B.T. Express,
Neil Young,
Sonny Sharrock,
Aural Exciters,
The Tremeloes,
Hot Snakes,
Ituana,
Arab on Radar,
Siglo XX,
Bobby Sherman,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Pantytec,
The Monochrome Set,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Pylon,
Public Image Ltd.,
Aaron Thompson,
DJ Sneak,
Iggy Pop,
The Martian,
The Mojo Men,
Jeru the Damaja,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Country Joe & The Fish,
In Retrospect,
The Gap Band,
Pet Shop Boys,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel, Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel.
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.