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 Jamaica and from Seoul.
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 1968 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tokyo 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 Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the theremin 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 Basic Channel to the electroclash 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 The Dead C. All the underground hits.
All Charles Mingus tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Flash Fearless record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 harpsichord and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Ronnie Foster record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Tubeway Army,
Hashim,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Surgeon,
Eric Copeland,
Skaos,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Alphaville,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Buzzcocks,
Funky Four + One,
Derrick May,
Grauzone,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jeru the Damaja,
Quantec,
Can,
Darondo,
The Fugs,
Minny Pops,
Joyce Sims,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Yusef Lateef,
Frankie Knuckles,
Sonic Youth,
Neil Young,
Subhumans,
The Fall,
Iggy Pop,
The Raincoats,
Scion,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Grey Daturas,
Fad Gadget,
Roy Ayers,
Babytalk,
Barrington Levy,
Ossler,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Essential Logic,
Byron Stingily,
Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson,
Michelle Simonal,
F. McDonald,
Boz Scaggs,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Ash Ra Tempel,
The J.B.'s,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Flesh Eaters,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Nick Fraelich,
The Barracudas,
Harry Pussy,
Robert Wyatt,
Derrick Morgan,
Monks,
Rotary Connection,
Schoolly D,
Fat Boys,
Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren, Todd Rundgren.
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.