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 Uruguay and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1975.
I was there at the first Throbbing Gristle show in London.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Tehran and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 linndrum 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 The Toasters to the dance 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a K-Klass record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Dead C,
Avey Tare,
Cal Tjader,
Steve Hackett,
Nik Kershaw,
Cluster,
Section 25,
Goldenarms,
The Count Five,
Al Stewart,
Scott Walker,
Rapeman,
Janne Schatter,
The Motions,
Moby Grape,
Nick Fraelich,
Nils Olav,
Y Pants,
The Sonics,
Eve St. Jones,
Monolake,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Gun Club,
Todd Rundgren,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Althea and Donna,
A Certain Ratio,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Arab on Radar,
DNA,
Rosa Yemen,
Skarface,
Bobby Byrd,
The Doors,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Deadbeat,
Public Image Ltd.,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
the Human League,
Bobby Hutcherson,
June Days,
Iggy Pop,
Saccharine Trust,
Kayak,
ABBA,
The American Breed,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Swans,
Ten City,
The Moleskins,
JFA,
Jerry Gold Smith,
David McCallum,
Pharoah Sanders,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
DJ Style,
Unrelated Segments,
The Techniques,
Pet Shop Boys,
Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo, Gabor Szabo.
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.