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 Turkmenistan and from Tokyo.
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 1964 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Mexico City 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Duran Duran to the techno 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 Mission of Burma. All the underground hits.
All Nick Fraelich tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal electroclash 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 mellotron and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Peter and Kerry record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
Faust,
Kenny Larkin,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Jacob Miller,
Cymande,
Sight & Sound,
Bootsy Collins,
Trumans Water,
Blancmange,
Terrestrial Tones,
Shuggie Otis,
Morten Harket,
Procol Harum,
Slave,
B.T. Express,
Panda Bear,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Altered Images,
Massinfluence,
The J.B.'s,
Delon & Dalcan,
Cameo,
Neu!,
Jimmy McGriff,
Sonic Youth,
Crooked Eye,
Crime,
The Mummies,
The Offenders,
Guru Guru,
Deakin,
The Trojans,
Organ,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Duran Duran,
Little Man,
Althea and Donna,
Icehouse,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Victims,
JFA,
Steve Hackett,
Monks,
Graham Central Station,
The Black Dice,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Jacques Brel,
Hashim,
Cluster,
Rod Modell,
Black Pus,
Gabor Szabo,
ABBA,
The Durutti Column,
The Detroit Cobras,
Eric B and Rakim,
Radiohead,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Rapeman,
the Slits,
Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars, Desert Stars.
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.