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 Guatemala and from Milan.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 UT to the crunk kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Sisters of Mercy. All the underground hits.
All Monolake tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Selecter record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pussy Galore record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Anakelly,
Isaac Hayes,
The Trojans,
Marmalade,
Average White Band,
Sun City Girls,
Alison Limerick,
Rod Modell,
Delta 5,
Gil Scott Heron,
JFA,
Nirvana,
Kayak,
Aswad,
ABBA,
The Last Poets,
David Axelrod,
Soul Sonic Force,
Symarip,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
the Fania All-Stars,
Icehouse,
Amon Düül II,
Qualms,
Terry Callier,
The Zeros,
Brick,
Dual Sessions,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Lower 48,
Saccharine Trust,
The Selecter,
Donald Byrd,
Agent Orange,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Ultravox,
Basic Channel,
Camouflage,
Urselle,
Mission of Burma,
Janne Schatter,
Yaz,
Ultimate Spinach,
Cal Tjader,
One Last Wish,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Chris & Cosey,
Glenn Branca,
Juan Atkins,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Young Marble Giants,
Sister Nancy,
Nas,
Barbara Tucker,
Royal Trux,
The Remains,
Darondo,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Marine Girls,
Erasure, Erasure, Erasure, Erasure.
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.