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 Belgium and from Winnipeg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1970.
I was there at the first Onyeabor show in Enugu.
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 1964 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Columbus.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Madrid 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 mellotron sounds with much patience.
I was there when Tom Verlaine 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 Robert Görl to the techno kids.
I played it at the Crocodile.
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 Youth Brigade. All the underground hits.
All LL Cool J tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Men They Couldn't Hang 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and an organ and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Star Department record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Boogie Down Productions,
James Chance & The Contortions,
Shuggie Otis,
Lalo Schifrin,
Bootsy Collins,
Organ,
The Buckinghams,
Jawbox,
The Seeds,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
The Stooges,
Yaz,
Stereo Dub,
Silicon Teens,
Sound Behaviour,
Japan,
Terry Callier,
Essential Logic,
Clear Light,
The Leaves,
Severed Heads,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Kauko Röyhkä ja Narttu,
Roger Hodgson,
Ice-T,
Hashim,
Anakelly,
Donny Hathaway,
Ultimate Spinach,
LL Cool J,
Andrew Ashong & Theo Parrish,
Delon & Dalcan,
Yazoo,
F. McDonald,
Lalann,
New Order,
The Monochrome Set,
Masters at Work,
The Victims,
Electric Light Orchestra,
Blake Baxter,
Television Personalities,
Kango’s Stein Massive,
48th St. Collective,
Erykah Badu,
Gichy Dan,
Hasil Adkins,
The Sisters of Mercy,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Ludus,
World's Most,
Peter & Gordon,
Thompson Twins,
The Cramps,
Heaven 17,
Icehouse,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Kas Product,
Pulsallama,
The Index, The Index, The Index, The Index.
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.