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 Georgia and from Stockholm.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Big Star show in Memphis.
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 1969 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Accra and Madrid.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Tehran 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 arpeggiator 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 Pierre Henry to the rock kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
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 Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra. All the underground hits.
All The Moleskins tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Janne Schatter 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 '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Pharoah Sanders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Connie Case,
Black Moon,
Absolute Body Control,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Wings,
Reuben Wilson,
Fort Wilson Riot,
Eli Mardock,
Curtis Mayfield,
PIL,
Pere Ubu,
Charles Mingus,
Fifty Foot Hose,
Unrelated Segments,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Audionom,
Ultravox,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Susan Cadogan,
Cybotron,
Sex Pistols,
Heaven 17,
Piero Umiliani,
DNA,
ABBA,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Man Eating Sloth,
Nick Fraelich,
Anakelly,
a-ha,
Japan,
Lightning Bolt,
Dual Sessions,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Lyres,
Excepter,
Alison Limerick,
Amon Düül,
Ken Boothe,
Underground Resistance,
Motorama,
Peter and Kerry,
Country Teasers,
Roger Hodgson,
the Normal,
Bill Near,
Crime,
Procol Harum,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Walker Brothers,
Nirvana,
Suicide,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
Danielle Patucci,
Stetsasonic,
Lalo Schifrin,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds,
Parry Music,
Pole,
Cymande,
Minor Threat,
Hashim,
Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash, Grandmaster Flash.
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.