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 Lebanon and from Glasgow.
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 1961 to 1972.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Beijing and Portland.
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 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 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 Warsaw to the grunge 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 Charles Mingus. All the underground hits.
All Nico tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Scratch Acid record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal grunge hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '70s cut and another box set from the '90s.
I hear you're buying a harpsichord and a 808 and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Kayak record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a mellotron.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a theremin.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Lee Hazlewood,
Model 500,
Dave Gahan,
Lou Reed & Metallica,
Wings,
Yusef Lateef,
Drexciya,
Crispy Ambulance,
Cameo,
Franke,
Nils Olav,
Piero Umiliani,
Buzzcocks,
Soft Machine,
Groovy Waters,
Black Moon,
Gang of Four,
Kaleidoscope,
48th St. Collective,
Gabor Szabo,
Robert Wyatt,
Radio Birdman,
Gil Scott Heron,
Popol Vuh,
Siglo XX,
the Normal,
The Real Kids,
Agent Orange,
cv313,
La Düsseldorf,
Circle Jerks,
Frankie Knuckles,
Cybotron,
Kayak,
Nas,
Sticky Fingaz feat. Raekwon,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Banda Bassotti,
Rakim,
Gang Starr,
London Community Gospel Choir,
Qualms,
The Pretty Things,
Ultravox,
Shuggie Otis,
Echo & the Bunnymen,
Bluetip,
Joey Negro,
Lafayette Afro Rock Band,
Big Daddy Kane,
Stockholm Monsters,
John Holt,
The Skatalites,
The Tremeloes,
Avey Tare's Slasher Flicks,
Minor Threat,
Ohio Players,
Notorious Big And Bone Thugs,
Zero Boys,
Angry Samoans,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Technova,
Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs, Gregory Isaacs.
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.