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 Ivory Coast and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1979.
I was there at the first Josef K show in Edinburgh.
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 1969 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Halifax.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Flamin' Groovies to the electroclash 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 10cc. All the underground hits.
All Hasil Adkins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Mission of Burma record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco 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 808 and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Martian record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
ABBA,
David McCallum,
Brand Nubian,
Judy Mowatt,
Erykah Badu,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Names,
X-101,
Mo-Dettes,
Moebius,
Ituana,
R.M.O.,
Peter and Kerry,
Lower 48,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Section 25,
Bobby Womack,
Jacob Miller,
Traffic Nightmare,
Thompson Twins,
The Cowsills,
Duran Duran,
Reuben Wilson,
Eric Dolphy,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Anthony Braxton,
The Barracudas,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Radiohead,
Hot Snakes,
MC5,
Dead Boys,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Easy Going,
Ronnie Foster,
The Doors,
Second Layer,
Surgeon,
Connie Case,
the Swans,
Bizarre Inc.,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Rosa Yemen,
The Moody Blues,
Joy Division,
Sonic Youth,
Arcadia,
Jerry's Kids,
Ossler,
The Evens,
Chris & Cosey,
Television Personalities,
Sexual Harrassment,
Y Pants,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kas Product,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Stooges,
The Smiths,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal, Sarah Menescal.
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.