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 Cameroon and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 1978.
I was there at the first Visage show in London.
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 1964 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in London and Houston.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 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 Lower 48 to the jazz kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Scan 7. All the underground hits.
All Yaz tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every June Days 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and an arpeggiator and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Agent Orange record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Warren Ellis,
Lalann,
The Moody Blues,
Altered Images,
Nation of Ulysses,
Dennis Brown,
The New Christs,
Flash Fearless,
Banda Bassotti,
Jacob Miller,
Lalo Schifrin,
Eden Ahbez,
Public Image Ltd.,
Monks,
Jacques Brel,
Jimmy McGriff,
Neil Young,
Cybotron,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Scan 7,
Yaz,
X-102,
Vladislav Delay,
The Skatalites,
Blossom Toes,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Danielle Patucci,
Fifty Foot Hose,
The Modern Lovers,
Livin' Joy,
Tres Demented,
Von Mondo,
Liliput,
Sex Pistols,
R.M.O.,
Donald Byrd,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
The Neon Judgement,
Derrick Morgan,
The Names,
Terrestrial Tones,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
The Music Machine,
Roxy Music,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Infiniti,
Pere Ubu,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Supertramp,
Pylon,
Idris Muhammad,
The Shadows of Knight,
Parry Music,
Joe Finger,
Curtis Mayfield,
Unwound,
Stereo Dub,
Nas, Nas, Nas, Nas.
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.