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 Russia and from Manila.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Taipei and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Pagans to the punk 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 The Sisters of Mercy. All the underground hits.
All The Birthday Party tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bush Tetras record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Deakin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Accadde A,
Leonard Cohen,
the Human League,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Radio Birdman,
Moebius,
Young Marble Giants,
Sugar Minott,
OOIOO,
Roxy Music,
Section 25,
Jeff Mills,
The Happenings,
Delta 5,
Hashim,
Malaria!,
Goldenarms,
Janne Schatter,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Gun Club,
ABC,
Deakin,
Urselle,
Skarface,
Kerrie Biddell,
Aloha Tigers,
The American Breed,
Eli Mardock,
The Sound,
Aswad,
Sister Nancy,
Stereo Dub,
The Mojo Men,
Gong,
Mission of Burma,
Drive Like Jehu,
Cal Tjader,
Johnny Clarke,
Darondo,
The Grass Roots,
the Swans,
Soft Cell,
Sandy B,
Judy Mowatt,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Martian,
The United States of America,
Boogie Down Productions,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Real Kids,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Victims,
Ponytail,
Kool Moe Dee,
Dennis Brown,
Half Japanese,
Surgeon,
LL Cool J,
cv313,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
The Stooges,
The Young Rascals,
The Mummies,
Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players, Ohio Players.
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.