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 Laos and from Houston.
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 1967 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Jakarta.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 1973 at the first Television practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the 808 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 Pylon to the funk kids.
I played it at Trash.
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 Tommy Roe. All the underground hits.
All Bush Tetras tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Chris Corsano 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 '90s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a sitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Audionom record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Brass Construction,
The Count Five,
Main Source,
Kevin Saunderson,
Mandrill,
Nick Fraelich,
Surgeon,
Roxy Music,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
The Smoke,
The Sound,
Archie Shepp,
Loose Ends,
DJ Sneak,
a-ha,
The Gun Club,
The Birthday Party,
The Detroit Cobras,
ABC,
Siglo XX,
Scientists,
Animal Collective,
June of 44,
Blake Baxter,
D'Angelo,
Jacques Brel,
These Immortal Souls,
Radiopuhelimet,
Brick,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Guru Guru,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Electric Prunes,
Schoolly D,
Gregory Isaacs,
The Barracudas,
Bobby Sherman,
Groovy Waters,
David Bowie,
Rosa Yemen,
David Axelrod,
John Foxx,
Strawberry Alarm Clock,
Crash Course in Science,
Adolescents,
T.S.O.L.,
The Human League,
Alison Limerick,
the Association,
Trumans Water,
Delon & Dalcan,
Eli Mardock,
R.M.O.,
Charles Mingus,
Suburban Knight,
Bad Manners,
Larry & the Blue Notes,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Country Joe & The Fish,
The Mighty Diamonds,
The Leaves,
Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy, Sister Nancy.
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.