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 Argentina and from Mexico City.
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 1968 to 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 1980 at the first Cybotron practice in a loft in Detroit.
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 Letta Mbulu to the grime kids.
I played it at the Spitz.
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 These Immortal Souls. All the underground hits.
All Albert Ayler tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Motions record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk 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 mellotron and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Max Romeo record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Jacob Miller,
Icehouse,
The Monks,
Reagan Youth,
The Knickerbockers,
Nico,
Fatback Band,
Sparks,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
The Names,
Marcia Griffiths,
Radio Birdman,
UT,
Amon Düül II,
H. Thieme,
China Crisis,
Girls At Our Best!,
John Lydon,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Henry Cow,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Trumans Water,
Massinfluence,
Talk Talk,
Khruangbin,
Sun City Girls,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Juan Atkins,
This Heat,
The Index,
Underground Resistance,
Johnny Clarke,
The Raincoats,
The Motions,
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282,
The Music Machine,
Buzzcocks,
Kas Product,
Blossom Toes,
Essential Logic,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
The New Christs,
Duran Duran,
Roy Ayers,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Cowsills,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Althea and Donna,
Gabor Szabo,
Funkadelic,
Dual Sessions,
The Buckinghams,
David Axelrod,
The Fortunes,
Arab on Radar,
Nirvana,
the Swans,
Prince Buster,
Minor Threat,
Aural Exciters,
Radiohead,
Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy, Tom Boy.
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.