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 Spain and from Taipei.
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 1960 to 1976.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Paris and Manila.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school Lyon 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 oboe 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 Ludus to the jazz 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 Darondo. All the underground hits.
All Tres Demented tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every LL Cool J record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '80s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying a spring reverb and a harpsichord and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Reagan Youth record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your mellotron and bought a snare.
I hear that you and your band have sold your snare and bought a mellotron.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
The Jesus and Mary Chain,
De La Soul & Jungle Brothers,
The Gladiators,
Harpers Bizarre,
Hardrive,
Kerri Chandler,
Gary Puckett & The Union Gap,
Lou Reed,
Scott Walker + Sunn O))),
Boz Scaggs,
Technova,
The Golliwogs,
Franke,
This Heat,
Accadde A,
Monolake,
Althea and Donna,
The Smoke,
Inner City,
Ken Boothe,
Sexual Harrassment,
Echospace,
Soft Machine,
Nation of Ulysses,
Section 25,
Bobby Hutcherson,
Avey Tare & Kría Brekkan,
Ralphi Rosario,
The Selecter,
Sixth Finger,
Bill Near,
The Peanut Butter Conspiracy,
Röyhkä ja Rättö ja Lehtisalo,
Masters at Work,
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band,
Black Bananas,
Dawn Penn,
Kings Of Tomorrow,
The Knickerbockers,
Country Teasers,
Pussy Galore,
The Mojo Men,
Kaleidoscope,
Yaz,
Be Bop Deluxe,
Girls At Our Best!,
The Evens,
Scientists,
The Durutti Column,
Thee Headcoats,
Letta Mbulu,
The Index,
Aloha Tigers,
Eurythmics,
E-Dancer,
The Zeros,
Blake Baxter,
Ohio Players,
The Pretty Things,
Sandy B,
Soulsonic Force,
Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks, Cheater Slicks.
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.