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 Ukraine and from London.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television 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 1964 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Lyon.
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 arpeggiator sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Q and Not U to the electroclash 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 Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Theoretical Girls tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Johnny Clarke 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying an organ and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Gastr Del Sol record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Rotary Connection,
Toni Rubio,
Radiohead,
The Velvet Underground,
Piero Umiliani,
Big Daddy Kane,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Stiv Bators,
Circle Jerks,
Eden Ahbez,
Iggy Pop,
Graham Central Station,
The Martian,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Maurizio,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Laurel Aitken,
Cal Tjader,
X-101,
Jesper Dahlback,
Negative Approach,
Flipper,
Nation of Ulysses,
Model 500,
Scratch Acid,
48th St. Collective,
Gang Starr,
Alice Coltrane,
Ludus,
Duran Duran,
Traffic Nightmare,
Harpers Bizarre,
Essential Logic,
DNA,
Rapeman,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Supertramp,
Lou Christie,
the Germs,
H. Thieme,
Freddie Wadling,
The Cowsills,
David McCallum,
Pussy Galore,
Parry Music,
Vladislav Delay,
Q and Not U,
T. Rex,
Wings,
Babytalk,
the Normal,
The Music Machine,
Juan Atkins,
Adolescents,
Harmonia,
Zero Boys,
Second Layer,
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry,
Stockholm Monsters,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna, Althea and Donna.
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.