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 Liberia and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in .
I was there at the first Suicide 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 1960 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Spokane and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school London 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 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 Absolute Body Control to the rap 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 Unrelated Segments. All the underground hits.
All Model 500 tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Erykah Badu record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a mellotron and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Minor Threat record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sister Nancy,
Grauzone,
Soft Machine,
Yazoo,
Sun City Girls,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Busters,
Tropical Tobacco,
Altered Images,
Colin Newman,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Scrapy,
Kerri Chandler,
The Seeds,
The Fugs,
Loose Ends,
Piero Umiliani,
Buzzcocks,
The Dead C,
Kayak,
The Angels of Light,
Thompson Twins,
The Fall,
John Holt,
Josef K,
Essential Logic,
Country Teasers,
Underground Resistance,
Wings,
Arab on Radar,
Reagan Youth,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Maleditus Sound,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Kinks,
These Immortal Souls,
Heaven 17,
Juan Atkins,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Cluster,
Basic Channel,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Magma,
Television,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
The Move,
Laurel Aitken,
Black Flag,
June of 44,
Isaac Hayes,
Lyres,
Public Enemy,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
The Music Machine,
The Cramps,
Graham Central Station,
Chris & Cosey,
Franke,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
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.