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 London.
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 1961 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1975 at the first Ubu practice in a loft in Cleveland.
I was working on the güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sun City Girls to the rock 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 Model 500. All the underground hits.
All Echospace tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Archie Shepp record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a synthesizer and a spring reverb and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Durutti Column record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Soul II Soul,
Colin Newman,
Talk Talk,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Neu!,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
The Dirtbombs,
Terrestrial Tones,
Minnie Riperton,
Public Image Ltd.,
Yazoo,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Icehouse,
Slick Rick,
Ash Ra Tempel,
One Last Wish,
OOIOO,
Eden Ahbez,
The Fall,
The Angels of Light,
Funky Four + One,
Lightning Bolt,
The Fuzztones,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Kaleidoscope,
Niagra,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Jacob Miller,
Tommy Roe,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
The American Breed,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Deakin,
The Mummies,
Eyeless In Gaza,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
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The Moody Blues,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Animal Collective,
EPMD,
Sun City Girls,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Dark Day,
Mark Hollis,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Camberwell Now,
Fugazi,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Wings,
Bad Manners,
Pussy Galore,
Magazine,
The Pop Group,
Arab on Radar,
Andrew Hill,
Blancmange,
The Victims,
Crime,
a-ha,
Smog,
Minor Threat,
Bauhaus,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus, Newcleus.
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.