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 Malta and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Glasgow and Cairo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lagos 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 theremin 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 Joyce Sims to the funk kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Oblivians. All the underground hits.
All Carl Craig tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Invisible 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Barclay James Harvest record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Fort Wilson Riot,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
the Germs,
the Sonics,
Deakin,
Ash Ra Tempel,
CMW,
Ronan,
Newcleus,
Mars,
Nation of Ulysses,
Max Romeo,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Aural Exciters,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Raincoats,
Wally Richardson,
Hasil Adkins,
The Red Krayola,
Agent Orange,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Robert Hood,
The Doors,
John Foxx,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
Lower 48,
Frankie Knuckles,
Rosa Yemen,
Animal Collective,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Blake Baxter,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Letta Mbulu,
Brand Nubian,
Maleditus Sound,
The Shadows of Knight,
the Fania All-Stars,
The Doobie Brothers,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Deepchord,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
The Last Poets,
Basic Channel,
LL Cool J,
Howard Jones,
The Moleskins,
Jawbox,
Q and Not U,
Radiohead,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Scan 7,
Gerry Rafferty,
Eric Copeland,
Intrusion,
Rod Modell,
Girls At Our Best!,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines, The Fire Engines.
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.