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 Albania and from Salvador.
But I was there.
I was there in 2001.
I was there at the first Tiga show in Montreal.
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 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Lyon.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lille 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Whodini to the disco 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 Sound Behaviour. All the underground hits.
All Kerrie Biddell tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Faraquet record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grime hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a chamberlin and a guitar and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a CMW record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a 808.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 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?
The Move,
The Standells,
Black Flag,
Country Teasers,
Pagans,
The Mummies,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Slits,
Rakim,
Derrick Morgan,
Fat Boys,
David Axelrod,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Delon & Dalcan,
Kevin Saunderson,
The Doobie Brothers,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Cybotron,
Lalann,
Kas Product,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
Black Bananas,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Lindisfarne,
Soulsonic Force,
Eve St. Jones,
Sonic Youth,
Fear,
Lou Reed,
Eric Dolphy,
the Germs,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
LL Cool J,
The Zeros,
Ohio Players,
Ten City,
Robert Wyatt,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
The Angels of Light,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Metal Thangz,
Glenn Branca,
Howard Jones,
Graham Central Station,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Joe Smooth,
Ornette Coleman,
The Dirtbombs,
Audionom,
Slave,
MDC,
John Lydon,
The Black Dice,
A Flock of Seagulls,
The Golliwogs,
Sam Rivers,
Reagan Youth,
Cymande,
Michelle Simonal,
The Pretty Things,
The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges, The Stooges.
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.