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 Laos and from Tokyo.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Jakarta and Mumbai.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 1976 at the first Feelies practice in a loft in Haledon.
I was working on the chamberlin 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 The Cure to the techno kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Terror Squad Feat. Camron. All the underground hits.
All Index tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül II 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delta 5 record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
David Axelrod,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Buzzcocks,
Lalo Schifrin,
Janne Schatter,
The Moleskins,
Henry Cow,
Eurythmics,
The Zeros,
Fela Kuti,
The Wake,
Jacob Miller,
Schoolly D,
Das Ding,
Gabor Szabo,
Altered Images,
Kaleidoscope,
Groovy Waters,
Marcia Griffiths,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Funkadelic,
Ituana,
Guru Guru,
Glenn Branca,
Anakelly,
David McCallum,
The Flesh Eaters,
The Golliwogs,
This Heat,
Ice-T,
Accadde A,
Sonny Sharrock,
Matthew Bourne,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Lucky Dragons,
Easy Going,
Brick,
T. Rex,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Leonard Cohen,
Gang Gang Dance,
Desert Stars,
Fad Gadget,
Blake Baxter,
Cluster,
Oneida,
Lakeside,
Traffic Nightmare,
CMW,
Lebanon Hanover,
Outsiders,
T.S.O.L.,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Yusef Lateef,
Cheater Slicks,
Deakin,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Marvin Gaye,
The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department, The Star Department.
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.