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 Dominican Republic and from Edmonton.
But I was there.
I was there in 1962.
I was there at the first Guess Who show in Winnipeg.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Portland and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 Throbbing Gristle practice in a loft in London.
I was working on the rhodes 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 rap 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 Lower 48. All the underground hits.
All Michelle Simonal tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Negative Approach 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Morten Harket record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a clarinet.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lou Reed,
FM Einheit,
Aaron Thompson,
The Blackbyrds,
D'Angelo,
Ten City,
Aural Exciters,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Angry Samoans,
Morten Harket,
Cheater Slicks,
Susan Cadogan,
Chrome,
Letta Mbulu,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Gap Band,
Todd Rundgren,
The Names,
Crash Course in Science,
Interpol,
Archie Shepp,
The Count Five,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Index,
Peter and Kerry,
Cal Tjader,
John Holt,
The Motions,
The Buckinghams,
Patti Smith,
Jacob Miller,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Ralphi Rosario,
Robert Görl,
Mission of Burma,
Ornette Coleman,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Mr. Review,
Minutemen,
Juan Atkins,
Scrapy,
Procol Harum,
The Detroit Cobras,
Outsiders,
The Beau Brummels,
Hardrive,
Television,
The Durutti Column,
The Music Machine,
Derrick May,
Ash Ra Tempel,
AZ,
Bad Manners,
Mars,
Sparks,
Lou Christie,
Johnny Osbourne,
Robert Wyatt,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Index,
Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew, Vaughan Mason & Crew.
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.