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 Nicaragua and from Houston.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1962 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Glasgow.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the clarinet sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Slick Rick to the jazz kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 Moby Grape. All the underground hits.
All DJ Sneak tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Grey Daturas 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 '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mantronix record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jandek,
Faraquet,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Jacques Brel,
This Heat,
Dave Gahan,
kango's stein massive,
Tim Buckley,
the Germs,
Joy Division,
Ralphi Rosario,
Charles Mingus,
AZ,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Bill Near,
John Lydon,
Deepchord,
The Invisible,
The Five Americans,
Howard Jones,
The Seeds,
CMW,
Sam Rivers,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Average White Band,
The Move,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
the Association,
Swell Maps,
Con Funk Shun,
Susan Cadogan,
Marc Almond,
Flamin' Groovies,
Ponytail,
Ludus,
The Chocolate Watch Band,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Scrapy,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Drive Like Jehu,
Yaz,
Hashim,
Dorothy Ashby,
Lalann,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Magma,
Janne Schatter,
cv313,
Pussy Galore,
Infiniti,
Basic Channel,
Sound Behaviour,
The Fuzztones,
10cc,
Soft Cell,
Smog,
Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest, Barclay James Harvest.
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.