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 Costa Rica and from Johannesburg.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Feelies show in Haledon.
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 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lagos and Hong Kong.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Hong Kong 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 harpsichord sounds with much patience.
I was there when Lou Reed 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 Sun City Girls to the electroclash kids.
I played it at Cafe Wha.
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 One Last Wish. All the underground hits.
All Ultra Naté tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Japan 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 '80s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying a snare and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Invisible record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought a rhodes.
I hear that you and your band have sold your rhodes and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Toni Rubio,
Lebanon Hanover,
Derrick Morgan,
Rakim,
Anakelly,
Dark Day,
Iggy Pop,
F. McDonald,
Leonard Cohen,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell,
AZ,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Sexual Harrassment,
Marshall Jefferson,
The Royal Family And The Poor,
Altered Images,
Cabaret Voltaire,
The Dead C,
Cluster,
Lee Hazlewood,
Bluetip,
Siglo XX,
The Flesh Eaters,
Infiniti,
Al Stewart,
Jacques Brel,
June Days,
David Axelrod,
Ohio Players,
Bronski Beat,
Bizarre Inc.,
Byron Stingily,
8 Eyed Spy,
The Smoke,
The Searchers,
Soul Sonic Force,
Rowland S Howard / Lydia Lunch,
Terry Callier,
Fatback Band,
Minnie Riperton,
Curtis Mayfield,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Model 500,
It's A Beautiful Day,
Sly & The Family Stone,
KRS-One,
Eric Dolphy,
T.S.O.L.,
La Düsseldorf,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Gladiators,
Brand Nubian,
The Beau Brummels,
Pussy Galore,
Eddi Front,
The Durutti Column,
Clear Light,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Neil Young & Crazy Horse,
The Martian, The Martian, The Martian, The Martian.
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.