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 St Lucia and from Copenhagen.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Hong Kong and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manchester 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 rhodes sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Los Fastidios to the punk kids.
I played it at the Troubador.
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 Gil Scott-Heron & Brian Jackson. All the underground hits.
All Sun Ra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Nico 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a 808 and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Schoolly D record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your oboe and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought an oboe.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Todd Rundgren,
In Retrospect,
Scrapy,
Trumans Water,
The Trojans,
Jawbox,
B.T. Express,
MC5,
Section 25,
Susan Cadogan,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
Silicon Teens,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Albert Ayler,
Idris Muhammad,
Isaac Hayes,
Heavy D & The Boyz,
Whodini,
Rites of Spring,
Lyres,
The Busters,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Slave,
Marmalade,
Alton Ellis,
Gichy Dan,
10cc,
David Axelrod,
Siglo XX,
The Toasters,
Theoretical Girls,
Toni Rubio,
Pierre Henry,
Black Bananas,
The Velvet Underground,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Johnny Clarke,
Camberwell Now,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Frankie Knuckles,
The Wake,
Gil Scott-Heron and Jamie xx,
Ludus,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Pere Ubu,
Rakim,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Hardrive,
Barrington Levy,
Bronski Beat,
Lakeside,
Basic Channel,
Chrome,
Intrusion,
The Birthday Party,
Excepter,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Suburban Knight,
the Slits,
The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor, The Royal Family And The Poor.
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.