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 Monaco and from Bologna.
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 1960 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Beijing.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Fugazi to the dance 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 The Residents. All the underground hits.
All The Divine Comedy tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Amon Düül record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Radiohead record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Peter and Kerry,
These Immortal Souls,
Isaac Hayes,
Stiv Bators,
Skarface,
The Saints,
Khruangbin,
Inner City,
Derrick May,
Echospace,
Arcadia,
Goldenarms,
X-101,
Kas Product,
DJ Style,
The Divine Comedy,
Colin Newman,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Porter Ricks,
Television,
Gastr Del Sol,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Sonics,
Chris & Cosey,
Peter & Gordon,
The Cowsills,
A Certain Ratio,
F. McDonald,
Fat Boys,
Dorothy Ashby,
Smog,
The Motions,
Lebanon Hanover,
New York Dolls,
Aaron Thompson,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Busters,
The United States of America,
The Evens,
cv313,
Iggy Pop,
Bobby Byrd,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Altered Images,
Kenny Larkin,
Bang On A Can,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Duran Duran,
Bluetip,
Ultravox,
Spoonie Gee,
Visage,
Boogie Down Productions,
The Standells,
Terrestrial Tones,
Flash Fearless,
Pantytec,
Q and Not U,
Soulsonic Force,
E-Dancer,
Todd Rundgren,
Eve St. Jones,
Flipper,
Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson, Marshall Jefferson.
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.