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 Colombia and from Edmonton.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Edmonton and Stockholm.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 linndrum 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 Camberwell Now to the dance 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 Bizarre Inc.. All the underground hits.
All Severed Heads tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Tim Buckley record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Underground Resistance record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought an arpeggiator.
I hear that you and your band have sold your arpeggiator and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Organ,
Thompson Twins,
Johnny Osbourne,
The Move,
Shoche,
Harpers Bizarre,
Matthew Bourne,
Vladislav Delay,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Sister Nancy,
Marcia Griffiths,
Section 25,
The Busters,
the Soft Cell,
The Happenings,
Gastr Del Sol,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
Sound Behaviour,
Glambeats Corp.,
Mad Mike,
Mary Jane Girls,
Cheater Slicks,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
8 Eyed Spy,
X-Ray Spex,
Young Marble Giants,
The Misunderstood,
Mr. Review,
Ossler,
Bauhaus,
Marmalade,
Althea and Donna,
Pere Ubu,
Leonard Cohen,
Das Ding,
EPMD,
Sunsets and Hearts,
Big Daddy Kane,
Country Teasers,
La Düsseldorf,
Monks,
Robert Görl,
The Sound,
Altered Images,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
ABBA,
Rekid,
Neil Young,
Easy Going,
Terrestrial Tones,
The Toasters,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Groovy Waters,
Fat Boys,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Second Layer,
D'Angelo,
Idris Muhammad,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Ponytail,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Avey Tare,
Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions, Boogie Down Productions.
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.