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 Iran and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Soft Boys show in Cambridge.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and London.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Sao Paulo 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 Robert Palmer 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 Donny Hathaway to the techno 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 Depeche Mode. All the underground hits.
All Chris Corsano tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liaisons Dangereuses record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Zeros record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Sherman,
Gang Green,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
CMW,
Hardrive,
Schoolly D,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Porter Ricks,
Scott Walker,
Oblivians,
Piero Umiliani,
Barbara Tucker,
Nick Fraelich,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Scion,
Stetsasonic,
Todd Terry,
Todd Rundgren,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Bill Near,
Jerry's Kids,
Theoretical Girls,
FM Einheit,
Black Moon,
The Cure,
The Motions,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Mo-Dettes,
Anakelly,
Absolute Body Control,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Tommy Roe,
R.M.O.,
Panda Bear,
Soul Sonic Force,
48th St. Collective,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Moebius,
Interpol,
Black Bananas,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Leaves,
Zero Boys,
The Moleskins,
The Grass Roots,
Bluetip,
Joe Finger,
Marcia Griffiths,
The Gories,
Gang Starr,
U.S. Maple,
Minnie Riperton,
Urselle,
Crooked Eye,
Robert Hood,
Nas,
Girls At Our Best!,
Franke,
Tropical Tobacco,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive, Kango’s Stein Massive.
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.