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 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 Glasgow and Winnipeg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Beijing 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 Michael McDonald 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 Flash Fearless to the rock 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 Siglo XX. All the underground hits.
All Lucky Dragons tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Rosa Yemen 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 '70s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Zero Boys record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a snare.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Talk Talk,
Kas Product,
Soulsonic Force,
Skarface,
Graham Central Station,
John Lydon,
Jerry Gold Smith,
Smog,
Bronski Beat,
Pole,
Crispian St. Peters,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Mantronix,
Roxette,
Sixth Finger,
Kevin Saunderson,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Vladislav Delay,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Radiohead,
Model 500,
Agitation Free,
Grey Daturas,
Duran Duran,
Donny Hathaway,
The Searchers,
Jacob Miller,
L. Decosne,
Janne Schatter,
The Stooges,
Barry Ungar,
Avey Tare,
ABC,
Das Ding,
The Doors,
The Skatalites,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
the Swans,
Cal Tjader,
Dennis Brown,
Minny Pops,
Excepter,
Big Daddy Kane,
the Bar-Kays,
X-Ray Spex,
Matthew Halsall,
Blossom Toes,
Anthony Braxton,
Pere Ubu,
James White and The Blacks,
Piero Umiliani,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Ralphi Rosario,
Prince Buster,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
The Tremeloes,
Gabor Szabo,
Popol Vuh,
Desert Stars,
Groovy Waters,
Scan 7,
Tomorrow,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family, Angels of Light & Akron/Family.
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.