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 Japan and from Houston.
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 1965 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 snare 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 Cluster to the crunk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Vaughan Mason & Crew. All the underground hits.
All Faraquet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Jesper Dahlbäck record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime 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 a linndrum and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Hasil Adkins record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
World's Most,
Hasil Adkins,
Bobby Womack,
Delta 5,
Joensuu 1685,
Jeff Lynne,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Lyres,
Bush Tetras,
Drive Like Jehu,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Gun Club,
Anthony Braxton,
Blossom Toes,
Cluster,
X-101,
Arcadia,
Blake Baxter,
Peter and Kerry,
Grandmaster Flash,
Essential Logic,
Icehouse,
Suburban Knight,
Funky Four + One,
Lou Reed,
MC5,
Minutemen,
Inner City,
Chris & Cosey,
The Barracudas,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
E-Dancer,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Intrusion,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Lou Christie,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Yazoo,
Saccharine Trust,
Prince Buster,
Zapp,
Groovy Waters,
Flash Fearless,
Man Eating Sloth,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The American Breed,
The Residents,
Magazine,
T.S.O.L.,
The Velvet Underground,
Pussy Galore,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Harpers Bizarre,
Eden Ahbez,
OOIOO,
Sun City Girls,
Zero Boys,
Con Funk Shun,
Severed Heads,
CMW,
Arthur Verocai,
Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach, Negative Approach.
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.