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 Qatar and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Salvador.
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 guitar 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 Marmalade to the disco 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 Faust. All the underground hits.
All Sparks tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Parry Music 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a New Order record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Kool Moe Dee,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Agent Orange,
Letta Mbulu,
Skaos,
In Retrospect,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Inner City,
Jandek,
Alton Ellis,
Bill Near,
Sandy B,
Slave,
The Cramps,
Youth Brigade,
Graham Central Station,
Anthony Braxton,
The Gories,
The Residents,
Brass Construction,
Q65,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Eden Ahbez,
Iggy Pop,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Alphaville,
Andrew Hill,
Hoover,
Funkadelic,
Japan,
Franke,
Arthur Verocai,
The Fall,
The Detroit Cobras,
Crispian St. Peters,
Matthew Halsall,
Sight & Sound,
Magazine,
The Grass Roots,
Gerry Rafferty,
Pierre Henry,
Jacob Miller,
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Nas,
Black Pus,
Monolake,
Scott Walker,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Smog,
Peter and Kerry,
The Velvet Underground,
Motorama,
Eurythmics,
Joey Negro,
The Vogues,
the Germs,
Camberwell Now,
Erykah Badu,
Aaron Thompson,
Marshall Jefferson,
the Sonics,
Ponytail,
Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson, Kevin Saunderson.
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.