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 Azerbaijan and from Shanghai.
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 1963 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Lille.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Winnipeg 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 Captain Beefheart 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 The Blues Magoos to the grime kids.
I played it at the Roxy.
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 Motorama. All the underground hits.
All Rapeman tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Television Personalities record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Graham Central Station,
Visage,
Brothers Johnson,
The New Christs,
The Fugs,
David Axelrod,
Mary Jane Girls,
Symarip,
Soul Sonic Force,
Barbara Tucker,
Buzzcocks,
Lalann,
The Real Kids,
DJ Style,
Andrew Hill,
Skriet,
K-Klass,
Jeru the Damaja,
Laurel Aitken,
Stockholm Monsters,
The Detroit Cobras,
Minny Pops,
Michelle Simonal,
Supertramp,
Animal Collective,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Piero Umiliani,
Negative Approach,
Skaos,
Audionom,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Ohio Players,
R.M.O.,
The Monochrome Set,
the Normal,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Depeche Mode,
Von Mondo,
Man Eating Sloth,
Sun Ra,
Bill Near,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
EPMD,
Television Personalities,
Avey Tare,
Sparks,
The Human League,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Golliwogs,
Joyce Sims,
The Misunderstood,
The Pop Group,
Eden Ahbez,
Wire,
Idris Muhammad,
The Tremeloes,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Rites of Spring,
Quantec, Quantec, Quantec, Quantec.
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.