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 Ivory Coast and from Delhi.
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 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Houston and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Accra 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 1977 at the first Zapp practice in a loft in Hamilton.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 John Cale to the techno kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Big Daddy Kane. All the underground hits.
All Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Q and Not U record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 spring reverb and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Sunsets and Hearts record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a chamberlin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your chamberlin and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Residents,
Erykah Badu,
The Monks,
Pet Shop Boys,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
DeepChord presents Echospace,
Joy Division,
Agitation Free,
The Pretty Things,
The Men They Couldn't Hang,
Rapeman,
Bush Tetras,
The Sisters of Mercy,
Sister Nancy,
Derrick Morgan,
Letta Mbulu,
The Cosmic Jokers,
a-ha,
Kerri Chandler,
The Golliwogs,
June of 44,
Mantronix,
Ten City,
Slick Rick,
Bauhaus,
Magma,
Half Japanese,
the Sonics,
The Associates,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Audionom,
Chris Corsano,
U.S. Maple,
MDC,
Lungfish,
Throbbing Gristle,
Black Moon,
Sonic Youth,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Hashim,
Danielle Patucci,
Patti Smith,
Idris Muhammad,
Joe Smooth,
Eric Copeland,
Masters at Work,
The Skatalites,
The Kinks,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Angry Samoans,
Infiniti,
Buzzcocks,
Sarah Menescal,
FM Einheit,
Eve St. Jones,
Harmonia,
The Cramps,
Delon & Dalcan,
The Raincoats,
Drive Like Jehu,
Eli Mardock,
Aaron Thompson,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu, Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu.
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.