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 Qatar and from Delhi.
But I was there.
I was there in 1973.
I was there at the first Television show in New York.
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 1969 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Mumbai and Bremen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Johannesburg 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 sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Robert Palmer 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 Quantec to the grunge 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 The Zeros. All the underground hits.
All Joy Division tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Fuzztones record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal punk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '50s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a marimba and a theremin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Joy Division record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your synthesizer and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a synthesizer.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Fugs,
The Modern Lovers,
Avey Tare,
Pagans,
Boz Scaggs,
Little Man,
Ash Ra Tempel,
Peter & Gordon,
Arcadia,
Lou Reed,
Young Marble Giants,
The Fire Engines,
A Certain Ratio,
Electric Light Orchestra,
The Vogues,
The Invisible,
Panda Bear,
LL Cool J,
Country Joe & The Fish,
D'Angelo,
The Barracudas,
Radiopuhelimet,
Spoonie Gee,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Cameo,
David McCallum,
Al Stewart,
Radiohead,
The Zeros,
Masta Ace, Craig G, Kool G Rap, Big Daddy Kane,
Sad Lovers and Giants,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The United States of America,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Bauhaus,
Ralphi Rosario,
Shoche,
Scratch Acid,
Glambeats Corp.,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Crispian St. Peters,
Model 500,
Franke,
Kas Product,
Delta 5,
Wighnomy Brothers & Robag Wruhme,
John Foxx,
Kayak,
Alton Ellis,
The Raincoats,
The Moleskins,
Alice Coltrane,
Adolescents,
T. Rex,
Cybotron,
The Doors,
Blake Baxter,
In Retrospect,
Crooked Eye,
The Techniques,
Ponytail,
Ultimate Spinach,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit, FM Einheit.
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.