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 Seoul.
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 1961 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Lagos.
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 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 Rapeman to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Japan. All the underground hits.
All Kevin Saunderson tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wire record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pierre Henry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a chamberlin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Trojans,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Neon Judgement,
Mission of Burma,
The Wake,
Stereo Dub,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
New York Dolls,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Sandy B,
Neu!,
Theoretical Girls,
Cal Tjader,
Scrapy,
Erykah Badu,
Los Fastidios,
Marvin Gaye,
The Beau Brummels,
Derrick Morgan,
Scion,
The United States of America,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Blossom Toes,
Graham Central Station,
Alice Coltrane,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Aloha Tigers,
Bauhaus,
Guru Guru,
Cymande,
James Chance & The Contortions,
The Smiths,
Oneida,
Quantec,
H. Thieme,
Scratch Acid,
Mandrill,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Sarah Menescal,
Chris Corsano,
Yellowson,
Flipper,
Darondo,
The Selecter,
Slave,
L. Decosne,
Brass Construction,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
The Dave Clark Five,
Oblivians,
Robert Hood,
Swell Maps,
Gong,
U.S. Maple,
Alphaville,
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Kas Product,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Lou Reed,
Grauzone,
Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers, Country Teasers.
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.