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 Uruguay and from Jakarta.
But I was there.
I was there in 1977.
I was there at the first Zapp show in Hamilton.
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 1962 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Milan and Delhi.
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 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 Unrelated Segments to the dance kids.
I played it at the Hacienda.
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 Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Hot Snakes tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ten City record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rock hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a linndrum and a synthesizer and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Donny Hathaway record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a linndrum.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a rhodes.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Blossom Toes,
The Divine Comedy,
Justin Hinds & The Dominoes,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Von Mondo,
Lungfish,
Jacques Brel,
Ohio Players,
Brick,
Ronan,
Charles Mingus,
Gang Starr,
Michelle Simonal,
Can,
Rites of Spring,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Selector Dub Narcotic,
The Victims,
Skaos,
Buzzcocks,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Smiths,
CMW,
Porter Ricks,
Anthony Braxton,
Rhythim Is Rhythim,
The Mojo Men,
Bang on a Can All-Stars,
Connie Case,
Alison Limerick,
Agitation Free,
Roxy Music,
The Standells,
The Fire Engines,
Matthew Bourne,
Idris Muhammad,
A Flock of Seagulls,
Faust,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
H. Thieme,
Slick Rick,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Bronski Beat,
ABC,
Marmalade,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Rosa Yemen,
Public Image Ltd.,
Flipper,
New Order,
Maleditus Sound,
Kas Product,
Youth Brigade,
Tim Buckley,
Ice-T,
Tomorrow,
Pulsallama,
Hardrive,
Warren Ellis,
Jesper Dahlback,
Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone, Grauzone.
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.