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 Chile and from Stockholm.
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 1968 to 1979.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Cairo and Toronto.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Seoul 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 at the first Suicide practice in a loft in New York.
I was working on the sitar sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers 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 Neil Young to the rap 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 Ash Ra Tempel. All the underground hits.
All Skriet tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Ludus record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal rap 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 mellotron and a güiro and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Offenders record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a clarinet.
I hear that you and your band have sold your clarinet and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Nick Fraelich,
Siglo XX,
The Doobie Brothers,
Richard Hell and the Voidoids,
China Crisis,
MDC,
Au Pairs,
LL Cool J,
The Associates,
Notorious BIG live in Amsterdam,
Harmonia,
Pylon,
the Fania All-Stars,
Echospace,
Electric Prunes,
Eurythmics,
David Axelrod,
Excepter,
The Human League,
Zero Boys,
John Coltrane,
Marmalade,
Gang Starr,
Yusef Lateef,
Gang Gang Dance,
The Misunderstood,
Angels of Light & Akron/Family,
Joensuu 1685,
EPMD,
Mandrill,
Barclay James Harvest,
The Pop Group,
Depeche Mode,
Rekid,
Johnny Clarke,
Scientists,
The Fire Engines,
Roxy Music,
The Moleskins,
Little Man,
The Index,
Idris Muhammad,
Masters at Work,
Kool Moe Dee,
Amazonics,
Jimmy McGriff,
Donny Hathaway,
Deepchord,
Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz,
Anthony Braxton,
Alice Coltrane,
Letta Mbulu,
Fluxion,
The Vogues,
Urselle,
Ken Boothe,
Vladislav Delay,
Roy Ayers,
Country Joe & The Fish,
Kenny Larkin,
Todd Rundgren,
The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves, The Leaves.
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.