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 Costa Rica and from Cairo.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
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 1968 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Manchester.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Cairo 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 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 Animal Collective to the funk kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Joey Negro. All the underground hits.
All Sällskapet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every X-Ray Spex record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Essential Logic record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Althea and Donna,
Josef K,
Banda Bassotti,
The Zeros,
Matthew Halsall,
Lou Christie,
Guru Guru,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
David McCallum,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Swans,
Television Personalities,
Jerry Gold Smith,
The Young Rascals,
One Last Wish,
Cluster,
Amon Düül,
8 Eyed Spy,
Barry Ungar,
Jacob Miller,
Mantronix,
Altered Images,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Cheater Slicks,
Oneida,
Newcleus,
Excepter,
Dawn Penn,
Scientists,
The Selecter,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
Glenn Branca,
Ronnie Foster,
Tubeway Army,
Loose Ends,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Pussy Galore,
PIL,
Terror Squad Feat. Camron,
Eric B and Rakim,
Public Image Ltd.,
Underground Resistance,
Aswad,
Country Teasers,
Minor Threat,
Brick,
Easy Going,
Marc Almond,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Robert Hood,
Heaven 17,
Section 25,
Frankie Knuckles,
Moebius,
Throbbing Gristle,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
Surgeon,
LL Cool J,
Deadbeat,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Goldenarms,
The Motions,
Agent Orange,
Joensuu 1685,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy.
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.