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 Solomon Islands and from Tokyo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1987.
I was there at the first Nirvana show in Seattle.
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 1967 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Copenhagen 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 synthesizer 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 Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish to the techno 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 Lizzy Mercier Descloux. All the underground hits.
All Lou Christie tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sad Lovers and Giants 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lizzy Mercier Descloux record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
John Foxx,
The Red Krayola,
Gichy Dan,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Simply Red,
Derrick May,
Audionom,
Mandrill,
Eurythmics,
Isaac Hayes,
kango's stein massive,
Smog,
Clear Light,
Aaron Thompson,
Albert Ayler,
Arcadia,
Ohio Players,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Masters at Work,
Marine Girls,
The Blackbyrds,
Khruangbin,
Swell Maps,
Crispian St. Peters,
Dorothy Ashby,
Bush Tetras,
the Sonics,
Fad Gadget,
Man Eating Sloth,
Rotary Connection,
New Age Steppers,
Fela Kuti,
Section 25,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Seeds,
Pantaleimon,
K-Klass,
Fluxion,
Underground Resistance,
Fugazi,
Lakeside,
The Sonics,
Funky Four + One,
Ossler,
Gang Green,
Ludus,
The Leaves,
Index,
The Doors,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Kerri Chandler,
Radiopuhelimet,
Derrick Morgan,
Dawn Penn,
Be Bop Deluxe,
The United States of America,
Bluetip,
Model 500,
Bang On A Can,
The Doobie Brothers,
Toni Rubio,
The Fugs,
Scott Walker,
Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber Band, Bootsy's Rubber 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.