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 New Zealand and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Calgary.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 808 sounds with much patience.
I was there when Donald Fagen 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 Ultra Naté to the techno 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 Danielle Patucci. All the underground hits.
All Jacques Brel tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every PIL record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Dave Gahan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Cale,
Agitation Free,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Hardrive,
The Selecter,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Magma,
Kaleidoscope,
Public Enemy,
Marvin Gaye,
Todd Rundgren,
Graham Central Station,
Throbbing Gristle,
Outsiders,
David Bowie,
The Last Poets,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Hoover,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Cybotron,
Bad Manners,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
The Golliwogs,
The Index,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Hashim,
Barry Ungar,
Gerry Rafferty,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Jandek,
Sexual Harrassment,
The Litter,
Talk Talk,
Gichy Dan,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Depeche Mode,
Brand Nubian,
Peter & Gordon,
John Coltrane,
Porter Ricks,
X-101,
The Monochrome Set,
Fat Boys,
Sun City Girls,
Sällskapet,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
L. Decosne,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Sam Rivers,
Derrick May,
Ultra Naté,
Con Funk Shun,
Slave,
Pulsallama,
Aswad,
Zapp,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Young Marble Giants,
Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo, Von Mondo.
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.