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 France and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1969 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Woodstock 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 Holger Czukay 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 Pulsallama to the jazz 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 Bang On A Can. All the underground hits.
All China Crisis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Delta 5 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 '80s.
I hear you're buying a clarinet and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Justin Hinds & The Dominoes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
June Days,
Von Mondo,
The Index,
Easy Going,
Rekid,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Delon & Dalcan,
Groovy Waters,
Curtis Mayfield,
Lightning Bolt,
Pantaleimon,
Avey Tare,
Eurythmics,
Tomorrow,
Alphaville,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Sparks,
The Associates,
Faraquet,
Intrusion,
The Invisible,
Jacob Miller,
Jeff Lynne,
Bobby Womack,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bizarre Inc.,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Flash Fearless,
Skaos,
Bang On A Can,
Rod Modell,
Funky Four + One,
Average White Band,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Talk Talk,
Todd Terry,
Jerry's Kids,
Rites of Spring,
Smog,
The Standells,
Vladislav Delay,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
David Bowie,
Stereo Dub,
Joyce Sims,
The Neon Judgement,
Bill Wells,
Letta Mbulu,
Lyres,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
The Durutti Column,
Cecil Taylor,
Quantec,
Ituana,
Alice Coltrane,
Reuben Wilson,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
John Holt,
The Mojo Men,
The Velvet Underground,
The Doors, The Doors, The Doors, The Doors.
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.