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 Bulgaria and from Tehran.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bremen and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Columbus 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 1976 at the first Chic practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 China Crisis to the funk 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 the Bar-Kays. All the underground hits.
All The Dave Clark Five tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Kayak record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Altered Images record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Black Moon,
Thompson Twins,
Minny Pops,
Hardrive,
The Alarm Clocks,
Jerry's Kids,
Electric Prunes,
June Days,
The Vogues,
Man Parrish,
Franke,
Cecil Taylor,
The J.B.'s,
Joyce Sims,
Mars,
Basic Channel,
Goldenarms,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Loose Ends,
The Last Poets,
L. Decosne,
Jandek,
Zero Boys,
Piero Umiliani,
Sister Nancy,
Desert Stars,
Amon Düül II,
Altered Images,
The Smoke,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
In Retrospect,
Lalo Schifrin,
Connie Case,
The Durutti Column,
Hashim,
Crispy Ambulance,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Groovy Waters,
Bauhaus,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Cramps,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The Birthday Party,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Toni Rubio,
World's Most,
Scrapy,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Bizarre Inc.,
The Stooges,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Rhythm & Sound,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Anakelly,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Malaria!,
June of 44,
The Neon Judgement,
Average White Band,
Joy Division,
Wings,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.