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 Palau and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Toronto and Milan.
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 1967 at the first Rodriguez practice in a loft in Detroit.
I was working on the mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Michael McDonald 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 Accadde A to the rap 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 Byron Stingily. All the underground hits.
All Man Parrish tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Crime record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
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 Sound Behaviour record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ronnie Foster,
Qualms,
Alphaville,
Todd Rundgren,
Echospace,
Guru Guru,
Sonic Youth,
Subhumans,
Donny Hathaway,
Mary Jane Girls,
Black Sheep,
EPMD,
Gerry Rafferty,
Judy Mowatt,
Monks,
Skaos,
The Invisible,
Derrick May,
The Buckinghams,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Reagan Youth,
The Litter,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Steve Hackett,
Marvin Gaye,
Fear,
Television,
8 Eyed Spy,
Symarip,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Intrusion,
Malaria!,
Graham Central Station,
Amon Düül II,
Television Personalities,
Swans,
Bobby Sherman,
Carl Craig,
Shuggie Otis,
Lindisfarne,
DNA,
Alison Limerick,
Kayak,
The Vogues,
Japan,
the Normal,
Absolute Body Control,
The Standells,
Supertramp,
Marine Girls,
Erasure,
Ossler,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
The Smiths,
Ponytail,
New Age Steppers,
The Neon Judgement,
Sun Ra,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Bobby Hutcherson,
The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds, The Mighty Diamonds.
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.