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 Korea North and from Stockholm.
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 1964 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in New York and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mumbai 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 1975 at the first Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the organ sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Moby Grape to the techno kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Rhythim Is Rhythim. All the underground hits.
All Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock 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 a guitar and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Association record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin 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 Stooges,
Jeru the Damaja,
Altered Images,
Porter Ricks,
Dawn Penn,
Kool Moe Dee,
June Days,
Marcia Griffiths,
Wire,
Niagra,
Soft Machine,
The Moleskins,
Tim Buckley,
Crash Course in Science,
Mark Hollis,
The Litter,
Babytalk,
Kerri Chandler,
Mantronix,
Sparks,
The Cosmic Jokers,
Joe Finger,
Hot Snakes,
Eddi Front,
JFA,
The Wake,
Judy Mowatt,
T.S.O.L.,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Danielle Patucci,
Zapp,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DJ Sneak,
Rosa Yemen,
Joey Negro,
F. McDonald,
Derrick May,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Public Image Ltd.,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Yazoo,
Black Pus,
The Smoke,
Crime,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Fad Gadget,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Banda Bassotti,
Mr. Review,
Pulsallama,
The Motions,
Amazonics,
The Star Department,
The Music Machine,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Grey Daturas,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Magma,
Theoretical Girls,
Joyce Sims,
The Mojo Men,
Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode, Depeche Mode.
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.