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 Algeria and from Manila.
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 1964 to 1974.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Salvador and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Portland 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Scott Walker to the rock kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Underground Resistance. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Sun City Girls 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a güiro and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pere Ubu record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Animal Collective,
Avey Tare,
Rites of Spring,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Vainqueur,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
The Wake,
Archie Shepp,
Piero Umiliani,
Pharoah Sanders,
Trumans Water,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
A Certain Ratio,
The Trojans,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
the Bar-Kays,
The Smiths,
OOIOO,
Sunsets and Hearts,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Rod Modell,
Schoolly D,
Youth Brigade,
The Evens,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Magma,
Bobbi Humphrey,
These Immortal Souls,
PIL,
Bill Near,
Bluetip,
Isaac Hayes,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
ABC,
Morten Harket,
Carl Craig,
Marcia Griffiths,
MC5,
Bootsy Collins,
Patti Smith,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
Prince Buster,
U.S. Maple,
The Toasters,
Arcadia,
The Index,
Gastr Del Sol,
Grandmaster Flash,
Sonny Sharrock,
Gang Green,
Max Romeo,
Hot Snakes,
Fatback Band,
Wire,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
Barrington Levy,
Rakim,
Grauzone,
Amon Düül,
Cymande,
Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants, Sad Lovers and Giants.
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.