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 Ghana and from Tehran.
But I was there.
I was there in 1971.
I was there at the first Selda show in Istanbul.
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 1966 to 1975.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Seoul and Mexico City.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Milan 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 organ 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 Groovy Waters to the rock 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 Terry Callier. All the underground hits.
All Eric Copeland tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Isaac Hayes record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal dance 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 a güiro and a mellotron and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Mo-Dettes record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your 808 and bought a theremin.
I hear that you and your band have sold your theremin and bought a 808.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Monochrome Set,
Deakin,
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
Sun Ra Arkestra,
Peter Gordon & Love of Life Orchestra,
Susan Cadogan,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
The Fall,
Stereo Dub,
Liliput,
Quantec,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
The Fire Engines,
The Saints,
Mission of Burma,
10cc,
Pet Shop Boys,
Organ,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Yellowson,
Barclay James Harvest,
Marshall Jefferson,
Byron Stingily,
Nirvana,
Lungfish,
Alice Coltrane,
Pussy Galore,
Letta Mbulu,
Alison Limerick,
Lindisfarne,
Aloha Tigers,
Magma,
Danielle Patucci,
Vladislav Delay,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
Ponytail,
Severed Heads,
Henry Cow,
Soul Sonic Force,
The Mojo Men,
Essential Logic,
Frankie Knuckles,
Monolake,
The Five Americans,
Hoover,
Nico,
Ituana,
the Swans,
Kaleidoscope,
Wally Richardson,
D'Angelo,
Yaz,
Q65,
The Victims,
New York Dolls,
Country Teasers,
Blake Baxter,
Lakeside,
Bill Near,
Bush Tetras,
Davy DMX,
AZ, AZ, AZ, AZ.
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.