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 Afghanistan and from Manila.
But I was there.
I was there in 1980.
I was there at the first Cybotron 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 1965 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Columbus and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1965 at the first Beefheart practice in a loft in Lancaster.
I was working on the mellotron 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 Bobby Hutcherson to the dance kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Scion. All the underground hits.
All The Associates tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wings record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Heavy D & The Boyz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Hoover,
Tres Demented,
Dorothy Ashby,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
New Order,
Shoche,
AZ,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Japan,
Michelle Simonal,
Public Enemy,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Simply Red,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Cure,
Roger Hodgson,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Ludus,
The Litter,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Little Man,
The Leaves,
Chris & Cosey,
Max Romeo,
Wings,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Knickerbockers,
Reuben Wilson,
Tomorrow,
Banda Bassotti,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Infiniti,
Deepchord,
JFA,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Birthday Party,
Alice Coltrane,
Peter and Kerry,
Monks,
Jandek,
Smog,
LL Cool J,
Kerrie Biddell,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Make Up,
The Moody Blues,
Television Personalities,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Sly & The Family Stone,
DJ Style,
Thompson Twins,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Kinks,
Piero Umiliani,
The New Christs,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sun City Girls,
Maurizio,
Urselle,
Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force, Soul Sonic Force.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
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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.