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 Vanuatu and from Glasgow.
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 1966 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Standells to the punk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Kurtis Blow. All the underground hits.
All The Busters tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delon & Dalcan record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Warsaw record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a güiro.
I hear that you and your band have sold your güiro and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Wake,
Pussy Galore,
The Gap Band,
Johnny Osbourne,
Agitation Free,
Country Teasers,
Warsaw,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Nik Kershaw,
Faraquet,
Matthew Halsall,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Doobie Brothers,
Kas Product,
The Sonics,
Iggy Pop,
Liliput,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Con Funk Shun,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Joe Smooth,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Bush Tetras,
La Düsseldorf,
Groovy Waters,
The Slits,
Royal Trux,
Sixth Finger,
Maurizio,
Flamin' Groovies,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Quando Quango,
Marmalade,
Mo-Dettes,
Mad Mike,
Ossler,
Deepchord,
Intrusion,
Nils Olav,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Leonard Cohen,
Blancmange,
Hashim,
Bill Near,
Kool Moe Dee,
Donny Hathaway,
Pet Shop Boys,
Davy DMX,
It's A Beautiful Day,
the Germs,
New York Dolls,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Sound Behaviour,
Neu!,
Bobby Sherman,
The Gories,
The Evens,
Black Bananas,
Lee Hazlewood,
The Sound,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band, Lafayette Afro Rock Band.
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.