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 Austria and from Paris.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Neu! show in Düsseldorf.
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 1977.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Halifax and Johannesburg.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Taipei 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 güiro sounds with much patience.
I was there when David Bowie 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 Leonard Cohen to the rap kids.
I played it at the Astoria.
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 Funky Four + One. All the underground hits.
All Leonard Cohen 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 rap hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '70s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a marimba and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a The Mojo Men record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your guitar and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a guitar.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Darondo,
Sight & Sound,
Jerry's Kids,
Barclay James Harvest,
Jeff Lynne,
Barbara Tucker,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
T.S.O.L.,
Dawn Penn,
Das Ding,
The Buckinghams,
Althea and Donna,
Mars,
Jesper Dahlbäck,
Matthew Bourne,
Big Daddy Kane,
Gil Scott Heron,
Bobby Womack,
Lonnie Liston Smith,
Louis and Bebe Barron,
DJ Sneak,
Y Pants,
Deakin,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Yaz,
The Divine Comedy,
The Five Americans,
Fluxion,
The New Christs,
Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel,
Clear Light,
Ken Boothe,
The Star Department,
Vaughan Mason & Crew,
The Skatalites,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Accadde A,
Brand Nubian,
Joyce Sims,
Girls At Our Best!,
Bob Dylan,
Todd Rundgren,
Coldchain, Rosco P., Featuring Pusha T from Clipse & Boo-Bonic,
Pole,
Joe Smooth,
Pagans,
New Age Steppers,
Zero Boys,
Matthew Halsall,
Sun Ra,
Eli Mardock,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Ultimate Spinach,
Sound Behaviour,
Saccharine Trust,
The Count Five,
Soulsonic Force,
Dr. Dre and Snoop Doggy Dog,
The Electric Prunes,
CMW,
ABBA,
Crispy Ambulance,
Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection, Rotary Connection.
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.