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 Albania and from Lyon.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1961 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Shanghai and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 theremin sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Agent Orange to the disco kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Bronski Beat. All the underground hits.
All Rotary Connection tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Lalann record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Eurythmics record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Dave Gahan,
The Count Five,
Blake Baxter,
Lakeside,
H. Thieme,
The Divine Comedy,
Gregory Isaacs,
Laurel Aitken,
B.T. Express,
Moebius,
Neu!,
Livin' Joy,
Funkadelic,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Stooges,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Excepter,
Ultravox,
Boredoms,
Susan Cadogan,
Marine Girls,
Erykah Badu,
Bill Near,
Motorama,
Arthur Verocai,
Yellowson,
Drive Like Jehu,
Circle Jerks,
Glambeats Corp.,
Eli Mardock,
The Grass Roots,
Qualms,
DJ Style,
Throbbing Gristle,
Sonny Sharrock,
Can,
Rakim,
Pierre Henry,
Inner City,
Rapeman,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Techniques,
The Names,
Wally Richardson,
Banda Bassotti,
Nick Fraelich,
Newcleus,
A Certain Ratio,
ABC,
Lower 48,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Pretty Things,
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Standells,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Schoolly D,
Soft Cell,
Monks,
Bush Tetras,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band, Fatback Band.
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.