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 South and from Tokyo.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Taipei.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Alison Limerick 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 Jesper Dahlbäck. All the underground hits.
All Maurizio tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Arcadia record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz 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 harpsichord and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Desert Stars record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Bobby Womack,
Drexciya,
Black Moon,
Bobbi Humphrey,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Vainqueur,
Arthur Verocai,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
June Days,
Pulsallama,
Pantytec,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Bobby Byrd,
The Golliwogs,
Rakim,
Archie Shepp,
Shuggie Otis,
Erasure,
Mad Mike,
Guru Guru,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Music Machine,
The Shadows of Knight,
Harpers Bizarre,
Adolescents,
Thompson Twins,
Rapeman,
The Detroit Cobras,
The Skatalites,
The Associates,
Yusef Lateef,
Peter and Kerry,
Rufus Thomas,
Youth Brigade,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Ice-T,
the Normal,
Eric Copeland,
Interpol,
Delon & Dalcan,
Quadrant,
Maleditus Sound,
Todd Terry,
Sixth Finger,
Magma,
The Moody Blues,
Bill Near,
Visage,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Scan 7,
Bill Wells,
Max Romeo,
Can,
The Pop Group,
ABBA,
Banda Bassotti,
June of 44,
Joe Finger,
Dave Gahan,
Barrington Levy,
Average White Band,
Joensuu 1685,
A Certain Ratio,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron, Terror Squad Feat. Camron.
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.