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 Malaysia and from Bologna.
But I was there.
I was there in 1967.
I was there at the first Rodriguez show in Detroit.
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 1971.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Bologna and Copenhagen.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Bremen 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 rhodes 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 Dual Sessions to the rock 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 The Slackers. All the underground hits.
All The Beau Brummels tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every The Trojans 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 '50s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a rhodes and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The United States of America record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your sitar and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a sitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nirvana,
Monolake,
Alphaville,
The Golliwogs,
Quadrant,
Lyres,
The Move,
Bobby Sherman,
Kerrie Biddell,
Girls At Our Best!,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
This Heat,
Big Daddy Kane,
Brass Construction,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Black Dice,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
Robert Hood,
Buzzcocks,
Grauzone,
Sandy B,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Rekid,
Avey Tare,
Malaria!,
Zero Boys,
Tomorrow,
Goldenarms,
Intrusion,
Zapp,
Matthew Bourne,
Chris & Cosey,
Stiv Bators,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
The Leaves,
Isaac Hayes,
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark,
Roger Hodgson,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Lalo Schifrin,
The Fire Engines,
The Pop Group,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
The Music Machine,
Minutemen,
Pole,
Newcleus,
World's Most,
The Real Kids,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
The Associates,
The Gap Band,
Gastr Del Sol,
Pete Rock & C.L. Smooth,
Bobbi Humphrey,
Oblivians,
Pantaleimon,
Minnie Riperton,
Agitation Free,
The Residents, The Residents, The Residents, The Residents.
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.