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 Bulgaria and from Houston.
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 1961 to 1973.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Philadelphia and Milan.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Calgary 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 Metal Thangz to the grime 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 Khruangbin. All the underground hits.
All Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Outsiders record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal crunk 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 theremin and a clarinet and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kenny Larkin record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a synthesizer.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Sly & The Family Stone,
Nirvana,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Alice Coltrane,
Warsaw,
The Walker Brothers,
Half Japanese,
Sun City Girls,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
F. McDonald,
Eve St. Jones,
Donald Byrd,
Monks,
Toni Rubio,
Scrapy,
Cameo,
Glenn Branca,
ABBA,
Andrew Hill,
The Fire Engines,
Gian Franco Pienzio,
Hasil Adkins,
Jandek,
Arthur Verocai,
June Days,
R.M.O.,
Man Parrish,
Ultravox,
Moby Grape,
Tim Buckley,
Big Daddy Kane,
Leonard Cohen,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Ajijia Myrayebe,
Art Ensemble Of Chicago,
The Gladiators,
Bang On A Can,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Soul Sonic Force,
Adolescents,
Nico,
Manfred Mann's Earth Band,
Scientists,
Alton Ellis,
Monolake,
Bill Near,
Janne Schatter,
Liliput,
Girls At Our Best!,
Warren Ellis,
Niagra,
The Happenings,
Reuben Wilson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
Animal Collective,
Kayak,
JFA,
Can,
Urselle,
Pulsallama,
Pere Ubu,
John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon, John Lydon.
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.