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 Gabon and from Lyon.
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 1967 to 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Tehran.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Glasgow 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 Donald Fagen 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 Sun City Girls to the techno 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 Duran Duran. All the underground hits.
All New Age Steppers tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Moody Blues record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal techno 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 an arpeggiator and a linndrum and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Blackbyrds record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
10cc,
The Cowsills,
Yellowson,
James Chance & The Contortions,
UT,
Idris Muhammad,
June Days,
The Fugs,
The New Christs,
Banda Bassotti,
Whodini,
The Dead C,
Hardrive,
Oneida,
Pharaoh Sanders and the Fire Engines,
Liaisons Dangereuses,
Nico,
Agitation Free,
Drive Like Jehu,
Wolf Eyes,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
the Germs,
Newcleus,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five,
Morten Harket,
Parry Music,
The Grass Roots,
Radiohead,
New Age Steppers,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Josef K,
PIL,
B.T. Express,
The Real Kids,
The Smiths,
Glambeats Corp.,
La Düsseldorf,
Piero Umiliani,
the Association,
Maleditus Sound,
Glenn Branca,
These Immortal Souls,
Leonard Cohen,
U.S. Maple,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
The Dave Clark Five,
Chris & Cosey,
The Remains,
The Divine Comedy,
Drexciya,
The Young Rascals,
The Selecter,
Procol Harum,
Black Flag,
Susan Cadogan,
Sly & The Family Stone,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Average White Band,
Symarip,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Aloha Tigers,
The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets, The Last Poets.
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.