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 Qatar and from Hong Kong.
But I was there.
I was there in 1983.
I was there at the first Lewis show in Vancouver.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 arpeggiator 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 Visage to the grime 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 The Shadows of Knight. All the underground hits.
All ABC tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ronan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a guitar and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a DNA record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a marimba.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Barry Ungar,
Ohio Players,
Josef K,
Procol Harum,
Thompson Twins,
Oneida,
Brass Construction,
Darondo,
Wasted Youth,
Throbbing Gristle,
Skriet,
T.S.O.L.,
Donny Hathaway,
Swell Maps,
Robert Görl,
Vainqueur,
Franke,
Jandek,
Slick Rick,
Clear Light,
Danielle Patucci,
Traffic Nightmare,
The Gories,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Joensuu 1685,
Sandy B,
Black Flag,
Ludus,
Quadrant,
Moebius,
Harry Pussy,
Sound Behaviour,
Ultra Naté,
Minor Threat,
Terry Callier,
Massinfluence,
KRS-One,
Unwound,
Leonard Cohen,
Eve St. Jones,
Marmalade,
Public Image Ltd.,
Ronan,
Sun Ra,
Anthony Braxton,
PIL,
Moby Grape,
Soft Cell,
Sugar Minott,
Drexciya,
Rites of Spring,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Jimmy McGriff,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Ralphi Rosario,
Grandmaster Flash,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas, Grey Daturas.
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.