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 Turkey and from Spokane.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mexico City and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 chamberlin 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 The Fortunes to the dance kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 Maleditus Sound. All the underground hits.
All Red Lorry Yellow Lorry tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Soft Cell record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Delon & Dalcan record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Move,
Archie Shepp,
Eric Dolphy,
Nils Olav,
Crispian St. Peters,
Lou Reed,
Magma,
Chris & Cosey,
The Real Kids,
Boogie Down Productions,
Jacob Miller,
Lee Hazlewood,
Joe Finger,
The Techniques,
Ice-T,
kango's stein massive,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Echospace,
a-ha,
L. Decosne,
Hot Snakes,
The Leaves,
E-Dancer,
Matthew Bourne,
Jawbox,
Parry Music,
The Count Five,
Glenn Branca,
Y Pants,
The Trojans,
Livin' Joy,
The Velvet Underground,
EPMD,
Kaleidoscope,
Television,
Barclay James Harvest,
the Germs,
Alton Ellis,
Dual Sessions,
Piero Umiliani,
The Human League,
Marine Girls,
Scott Walker,
Delon & Dalcan,
Reagan Youth,
Althea and Donna,
Trumans Water,
Erasure,
Graham Central Station,
The Remains,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Black Bananas,
Excepter,
Slave,
Yusef Lateef,
Jandek,
Michelle Simonal,
the Soft Cell,
Gregory Isaacs,
World's Most,
Gerry Rafferty,
Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz, Metal Thangz.
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.