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 Senegal and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Glasgow and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Michael McDonald 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 Rhythm & Sound 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 Magazine. All the underground hits.
All Josef K tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Black Flag 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Dave Clark Five record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jesper Dahlback,
The Residents,
Ice-T,
June Days,
Chrome,
Oneida,
The Five Americans,
Monks,
The American Breed,
Leonard Cohen,
Eden Ahbez,
Skaos,
The Leaves,
The Martian,
Slave,
Matthew Halsall,
Barclay James Harvest,
Patti Smith,
Pylon,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Lungfish,
Minny Pops,
Cal Tjader,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
H. Thieme,
Quadrant,
Robert Hood,
Boogie Down Productions,
Franke,
Von Mondo,
The Gladiators,
This Heat,
The Human League,
Crash Course in Science,
Funkadelic,
Junior Murvin,
Don Cherry,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Sister Nancy,
Yazoo,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Curtis Mayfield,
Smog,
John Cale,
Blossom Toes,
Y Pants,
Index,
Pulsallama,
Connie Case,
Sexual Harrassment,
Fluxion,
Glenn Branca,
Nik Kershaw,
Bill Wells,
Wire,
Jeff Mills,
Roger Hodgson,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Technova,
PIL, PIL, PIL, PIL.
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.