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 Kiribati and from Lille.
But I was there.
I was there in 1968.
I was there at the first Can show in Cologne.
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 1967 to 1970.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Stockholm and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Manila 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 snare 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 Moby Grape to the funk kids.
I played it at the 40 Watt.
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 Sun City Girls. All the underground hits.
All Camberwell Now tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Easy Going record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal funk hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an oboe and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Larry & the Blue Notes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your linndrum and bought a spring reverb.
I hear that you and your band have sold your spring reverb and bought a linndrum.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Thee Headcoats,
Bang On A Can,
Minutemen,
Nation of Ulysses,
Kayak,
Mantronix,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Pole,
Niagra,
Oneida,
Toni Rubio,
Glenn Branca,
Oppenheimer Analysis,
Don Cherry,
The Gladiators,
Soul II Soul,
Neil Young,
Los Fastidios,
The Happenings,
It's A Beautiful Day,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Fort Wilson Riot,
E-Dancer,
Swell Maps,
Gichy Dan,
The Fire Engines,
Goldenarms,
Tropical Tobacco,
Negative Approach,
Marvin Gaye,
The Leaves,
Michelle Simonal,
Anthony Braxton,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
The Sonics,
Juan Atkins,
Rotary Connection,
UT,
Kool G Rap & DJ Polo,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Matthew Bourne,
The Fugs,
Robert Wyatt,
T. Rex,
Todd Rundgren,
Eddi Front,
Faraquet,
Visionaries,LMNO, T- Love & Iriscience,
Easy Going,
Tubeway Army,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
The Walker Brothers,
Graham Central Station,
Whodini,
Porter Ricks,
In Retrospect,
Hot Snakes,
The Durutti Column,
Blossom Toes,
Fugazi,
Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape, Moby Grape.
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.