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 Israel and from Johannesburg.
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 1966 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Calgary and Lagos.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 guitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Holger Czukay 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 Swell Maps to the punk 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 Babytalk. All the underground hits.
All Alton Ellis tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Barry Ungar 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a sitar and a snare and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Lonnie Liston Smith record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a sitar.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Arab on Radar,
Toni Rubio,
Major Organ And The Adding Machine,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Freddie Wadling,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Reagan Youth,
Radiohead,
Sound Behaviour,
Swans,
the Sonics,
The Zeros,
The Standells,
Excepter,
Yazoo,
Ultravox,
Reuben Wilson,
Index,
The Fuzztones,
The Residents,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Con Funk Shun,
Newcleus,
Scratch Acid,
The Five Americans,
Colin Newman,
The Sound,
David Bowie,
The Fortunes,
Mandrill,
Gang Starr,
Piero Umiliani,
New York Dolls,
The Cure,
X-101,
Derrick Morgan,
Negative Approach,
Metal Thangz,
Glambeats Corp.,
Howard Jones,
Amazonics,
Kaleidoscope,
Jacques Brel,
The Modern Lovers,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
The Raincoats,
Stiv Bators,
Judy Mowatt,
Yellowson,
Josef K,
Hasil Adkins,
Groovy Waters,
Make Up,
ABC,
Bill Wells,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Ronan,
The Human League,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson, Bobby Hutcherson.
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.