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 Morocco and from Beijing.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Mistral show in Amsterdam.
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 1965 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Madrid and Seoul.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Toronto 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 spring reverb sounds with much patience.
I was there when Captain Beefheart 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 Hashim to the disco 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 James Chance & The Contortions. All the underground hits.
All Derrick May tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Bluetip record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal disco hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a theremin and an oboe and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Liaisons Dangereuses record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultramagnetic MC's,
Agitation Free,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Harpers Bizarre,
Dorothy Ashby,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Kool Moe Dee,
Altered Images,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
the Germs,
The Fuzztones,
Ralphi Rosario,
Lower 48,
the Human League,
Jesper Dahlback,
Smog,
The Monks,
The Happenings,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Royal Trux,
Peter and Kerry,
Eddi Front,
Arthur Verocai,
Spoonie Gee,
Charles Mingus,
Ken Boothe,
Blancmange,
Chrome,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Colin Newman,
Skarface,
X-101,
The Real Kids,
Essential Logic,
Swell Maps,
MDC,
Maleditus Sound,
The Standells,
Jawbox,
Au Pairs,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
Donald Byrd,
The Detroit Cobras,
Visage,
DJ Style,
Los Fastidios,
Matthew Halsall,
The Wake,
Cymande,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
The Gap Band,
Cameo,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Slave,
The Selecter,
Whodini,
Jacob Miller,
Cabaret Voltaire,
Heaven 17,
The Residents,
Gil Scott Heron,
LL Cool J,
Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca.
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.