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 Ecuador and from London.
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 1963 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Johannesburg and New York.
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 clarinet 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 Skaos to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Adolescents. All the underground hits.
All The New Christs tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Carl Craig record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gary Puckett & The Union Gap record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
DNA,
The Pop Group,
Sixth Finger,
Gichy Dan,
Thompson Twins,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Susan Cadogan,
Sparks,
Los Fastidios,
Whodini,
Mr. Review,
MC5,
Section 25,
Matthew Bourne,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Animal Collective,
Liliput,
Joensuu 1685,
Max Romeo,
Minor Threat,
The Doors,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
FM Einheit,
LL Cool J,
Moby Grape,
The Smoke,
The Trojans,
Soft Machine,
Arcadia,
Jeff Lynne,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Altered Images,
Piero Umiliani,
Pagans,
John Coltrane,
Joy Division,
Main Source,
Con Funk Shun,
Pierre Henry,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Ronan,
Lower 48,
The Moody Blues,
Dennis Brown,
Todd Terry,
Maurizio,
Boogie Down Productions,
Sam Rivers,
Black Pus,
James White and The Blacks,
Thee Headcoats,
Severed Heads,
Second Layer,
The Monks,
UT,
Siglo XX,
Panda Bear,
Babytalk,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Tears for Fears,
Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag, Black Flag.
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.