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 Netherlands and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Copenhagen and Copenhagen.
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 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 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 Funkadelic to the techno 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 Zapp. All the underground hits.
All 10cc tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bizarre Inc. record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a the Germs record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Davy DMX,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Zero Boys,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Bob Dylan,
Zapp,
FM Einheit,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Altered Images,
Fear,
The Evens,
Niagra,
OOIOO,
Agitation Free,
Marc Almond,
The Techniques,
Junior Murvin,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Lower 48,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Ronan,
Traffic Nightmare,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Throbbing Gristle,
Ultra Naté,
Eden Ahbez,
Sight & Sound,
David Axelrod,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Steve Hackett,
Cymande,
Tomorrow,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Panda Bear,
Joensuu 1685,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Stiv Bators,
The Young Rascals,
Magma,
Intrusion,
the Sonics,
Iggy Pop,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Jandek,
The Sonics,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Wolf Eyes,
The Smoke,
The Blackbyrds,
The New Christs,
New Order,
Bauhaus,
Swans,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Bootsy Collins,
Beasts of Bourbon,
Chrome,
Accadde A,
Guru Guru,
Kevin Saunderson,
Black Pus,
Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell, Kerrie Biddell.
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.