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 Austria and from Shanghai.
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 1967 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Jakarta 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 arpeggiator 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 The Shadows of Knight 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 AZ. All the underground hits.
All Tom Boy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Liliput 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Jandek record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Doobie Brothers,
Eden Ahbez,
Cal Tjader,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Franke,
Arthur Verocai,
Albert Ayler,
Michelle Simonal,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
KRS-One,
Pagans,
Fugazi,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Pole,
The Moleskins,
The Mojo Men,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Pet Shop Boys,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Spoonie Gee,
cv313,
Icehouse,
Echospace,
Malaria!,
Negative Approach,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Public Image Ltd.,
Nirvana,
Y Pants,
Moby Grape,
Organ,
Siglo XX,
Delon & Dalcan,
Ralphi Rosario,
Can,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Chris Corsano,
Ten City,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Gregory Isaacs,
Sarah Menescal,
Dawn Penn,
The Red Krayola,
The Techniques,
Parry Music,
Scan 7,
Audionom,
Marmalade,
Curtis Mayfield,
Byron Stingily,
Stereo Dub,
Howard Jones,
The Cramps,
F. McDonald,
Gang of Four,
Jerry's Kids,
Henry Cow,
the Fania All-Stars,
Porter Ricks,
Kool Moe Dee,
Iggy Pop,
Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers, Aloha Tigers.
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.